What a major mistake that would probably be on the mullahs’ part…
Alavi [the Iranian general who is making these mouth noises] also warned that Israel was within Iran’s medium-range missiles and its fighter bombers, while maintaining that Israel was not strong enough to launch an aerial attack against Iran.
Are you sure you want to bet on that?
Story here.
Heh. Noah Pollak at the Corner:
The Israelis must be having a good laugh at all of this. The only operational Iranian missile that can reach Israel is the Shahab-3, and most estimates place the number those in Iran at under 40 — not to mention the fact that the Shahab-3 failed most of its flight tests. As for bombers, the Iranian air force is so archaic, and the Israeli air force so advanced, that an Iranian bombing mission would go down in history as one of the most absurdly conceived air campaigns in the history of warfare.