By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
Iran on Monday said that newly obtained intelligence will allow them to “immediately counter” any Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear sites with an attack on the Jewish state’s “hidden nuclear facilities.”
An intelligence trove that Iran claimed it had obtained “would enable the fighters of Islam to immediately strike (Israel’s) hidden nuclear facilities in response to any possible attack by the Zionist regime on Iran’s nuclear facilities,” the Supreme National Security Council said in a statement.
It also said Iran would respond in a “precisely proportional” manner to any Israeli attack on its military or economic infrastructure.
On June 7, state media reported that Tehran had obtained a trove of “strategic and sensitive” Israeli intelligence in a covert operation, including files related to Israel’s undeclared nuclear facilities and defence plans.
Iran’s Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib later said that the seized documents included information related to Western countries including the United States, and “will be published soon”.
On June 9, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami, said the intelligence would make “the impact of Iranian missiles more precise” in case of a confrontation.
Full statement by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council:
‘In the name of God Almighty.
The recent complex intelligence operation carried out by the anonymous soldiers of the ‘Imam of our Time’ (Imam Mahdi) are a great intelligence achievement and an important part of the intelligent design and covert and secret actions by the sacred Islamic system against the enemies’ schemes.
Another important part of this is the round-the-clock struggle of our armed forces to create operational capacity aligned with the weaknesses and strengths of the Zionist regime and its supporters.
Today, access to this newly revealed information and the completion of the intelligence and operational cycle have enabled the warriors of Islam to immediately counter any possible attack by the Zionist regime’s against our nuclear facilities.
To any such aggression we will respond instantly, by attacking their hidden nuclear facilities and their economic and military infrastructure, in proportion to the type of aggression carried out against us.
The US is still ridiculously demanding Iran end all enrichment of uranium, which Iran has already made clear is a non-starter.
“They [the Iranians] don’t want to give up what they have to give up,” Trump said on Monday. “You know what that is: They seek enrichment.”
“They have given us their thoughts on the deal, and I said, you know, it’s just not acceptable for it,” Trump continued.
“We can’t have enrichment. We want just the opposite, and so far, they’re not there. I hate to say that, because the alternative is a very, very dire one,” he added.
During his first term, Trump tore up Obama’s nuclear deal just to please the late Zionist GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson and now he’s threatening Iran with war if they don’t accept his even worse deal.
He’s backing Tehran into a corner on behalf of Israel and forcing them to choose surrender or war.