Iran warns Israel against attacking its nuclear sites

The Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, warned Sunday that any attack by Israel against its nuclear sites "will fall like a thunderbolt on the head" of the Jewish state, also accusing the West of "lying" about the Iranian nuclear threat. "If the Zionist leaders talk of military action (against Iran), it is because they are terrified and more vulnerable than ever. Any wrong decision will fall on their head like lightning, "said Ayatollah Khamenei in a speech to mark the death anniversary of Imam Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic. Israel and the U.S. have repeatedly said in recent months does not rule out military strikes against Iran's controversial nuclear program if the current negotiations between Tehran and the major powers did not lead quickly to a diplomatic solution. Iranian leaders have reiterated their side that Tehran would respond militarily to any attack by launching missiles against Israel, his enemy which he regularly predicted the disappearance. Tehran has also repeatedly threatened to attack U.S. bases in the region, and even close the Strait of Hormuz through which passes a third of world seaborne oil trade. The Supreme Leader has accused the West of parallel shake "the lie" of the Iranian nuclear threat only because he "fear of Islamic Iran". "The political circles and the international media say that a nuclear Iran is dangerous. I say it is a lie. What they fear is not Iran's nuclear but of Islamic Iran". Ayatollah Khamenei said that the West had "a crazy behavior" toward the Iranian nuclear issue, they "overstate falsely to conceal their problems." The West suspects Iran of having a military objective behind its nuclear program, which was condemned by six resolutions of the Security Council of the UN since 2006. Tehran has categorically denied ever wanting to develop nuclear weapons, repeatedly condemned by Ayatollah Khamenei as a "religious sin" (haram). The Supreme Leader of Iran, without directly addressing the ongoing nuclear talks with world powers to try to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis, said that Iran "will not stop on the path of political progress, science and technology ". He also reiterated that severe economic sanctions by the West "have no effect and can not stop the Iranian people," adding: "they only reinforce his hatred towards them." The lifting of UN sanctions against its missile and nuclear programs and Western sanctions against its oil and banking sector is one of the key demands of Iran in the ongoing negotiations with the 5 +1 group (United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany).