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Article: IRAN - Feb 8 - Rafsanjani Warns Iran On Potential US Attack.(Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani)
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- APS Diplomat Recorder
- Article date:
- February 10, 2007
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Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the influential former Iranian president, warns of the grave consequences for Iran of a possible US attack, in a public challenge to the leadership's handling of the crisis surrounding its nuclear programme. Rafsanjani was speaking during a visit to the holy city of Qom, where he was seeking to foster consensus among senior Ayats against the radical approach of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, the president. Iran's supreme leader Ayat Ali Khamenei, reiterated that Tehran would retaliate against any attack by targeting US interests round the world. "The enemy knows well that any aggression would face an all-out reaction of the Iranian nation towards the ...