Iranian general: ‘Entire Middle East in range of our missiles’

Hours after Iran’s ambassador to the UN condemned Israeli statements about a possible strike at Iran’s nuclear program as “a threat to world peace,” a senior Iranian general announced on Saturday that the Islamic Republic’s missiles can strike anywhere in the Middle East.

“Today, there is no base in the region lying outside the reach of the Iranian missiles,” said the second-in-command of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami.

Salami spoke at a ceremony in memory of Hassan Tehrani Moqaddam, one of the founders of the Iranian missile program who was killed in a blast at an IRGC base in December.

“Wherever you imagine these bases are, they are within the reach of Iranian missiles,” Salami stated, noting the range, power, and precision of Iran’s various missile systems.

Earlier on Saturday, the Iranian envoy to the UN said that belligerent remarks made by Israeli officials against the Islamic Republic, including threats to strike at targets in Iran, were a threat to world peace and a violation of the UN charter.

Formally complaining to the UN Security Council, Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee condemned comments by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and other Israeli officials, calling them “provocative, unwarranted and irresponsible.”