TEHRAN: Iran issued another warning on Friday against any attack on the country, while claiming its talks with world powers over its controversial nuclear program were “a success and a victory.”

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s deputy representative to the Revolutionary Guards, Mojtaba Zolnour, said Tehran will “blow up the heart” of Israel if attacked by the Jewish state or the United States.

“Even if one American or Zionist missile hits our land, before the dust is settled, Iranian missiles will blow up the heart of Israel,” state news agency IRNA quoted Zolnour as saying.

Another Khamenei appointee and one of Tehran’s Friday prayer leaders, Ahmad Khatami, also issued a stern warning to Iran’s enemies, without naming any.

“As our leader has said, our enemies are pursuing an Iranophobia scenario against us, and they are saying Iran is against world peace. But the world has understood that what they say is a lie,” Khatami said in his Friday sermon broadcast live on state radio.

Khatami predicted a new Palestinian uprising, after clashes at Al-Aqsa Mosque two weeks ago increased tension in Jerusalem, state television said.

“The Zionists have for the umpteenth time launched an attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque ... Know that with these crimes that you have now perpetrated the third intifada will take shape,” Khatami told worshippers in Tehran.

After the sermon, a few hundred people staged an anti-Israeli rally in central Tehran, a witness said.

Khatami labeled the nuclear talks a “success and victory” for Tehran.

“The Geneva talks were a success and a victory for the Islamic republic system (since) even the Zionist and world media confirmed this,” he said.

“Up until the conference they were constantly talking about sanctions and suspension, but when the conference was held there was no talk of either sanctions or suspension,” Khatami said, referring to demands that Iran halt sensitive nuclear work.

Iranian officials have maintained that they had the upper hand in the negotiations, with Ahmadinejad on Wednesday calling them a “step forward.”