TEHERAN - Iran’s Revolutionary Guards chief warned the United States and Britain that Iran would retaliate with missiles if attacked, state-run television reported.
General Yahya Rahim Safavi also accused US and British intelligence services of provoking unrest in the oil-rich southwestern Iran and providing bomb materials to Iranian dissidents.
Two bombings killed at least nine people in the southwestern city of Ahvaz on Jan. 21 , near the border with southern Iraq where 8,500 British soldiers are based.
"The world knows Iran has a ballistic missile power with a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,300 miles)," Safavi said on state-run television. Israel is within that range.
"We have no intention to invade any country. We will take effective defence measures if attacked," he said.
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