“You also should not forget that American commanders have plenty of presence and travel in the region. If you kill any of us, we will kill dozens of you,” Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, chief of the Guards’ aerospace division, was quoted by Fars agency on Tuesday as saying.
Earlier last week several American neoconservatives, including retired US Army general Jack Keane, urged the Obama administration to use covert action against Iran and target members of the Quds Force, the Guard’s special foreign actions unit.
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, meanwhile, has criticized the head of the UN’s nuclear agency as an American pawn, in the run-up to its expected release of evidence which purports to document Tehran’s nuclear weapons program.
In remarks broadcast on state television on Tuesday, Ahmadinejad said that International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano “has no power by himself ” and violates his organization’s internal regulations.
“He delivers the papers that American officials hand to him,” the Iranian president said.
The report, which is expected to be issued Wednesday, will suggest that Iran made models of a nuclear warhead. Iran denies that it has a weapons program and has called the report fabricated.
