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Lawmaker Doubts U.S. Can Attack Iran
In the present conditions, the United States lacks both the military and financial means to attack Iran, deputy speaker of the Russian State Duma Valery Yazuev told journalists on Monday. Talk of a U.S. attack on Iran analogical to its invasion of Iraq is only being used to excite the public, he said. Yazuev suggested that the topic is being used as an attempt to provoke Iran into violent action against Israel, giving the U.S. grounds for retaliation against Iran.
Yazuev compared the situation to Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia. He added that Iran is very well armed and has armed forces larger than Russia’s at 1.2 million people, not counting the Islamic Guard. Yazuev recalled Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent statement that “If anyone dares to take even an insignificant offensive against the legal interests of Iran, its borders or its holy land, our forces will break his arm off before he has a chance to press the button.”
Yazuev said that there has been repeated mention of a preventive attack on Iranian nuclear facilities in U.S. and Israeli military circles. He also said that there is no basis for thinking that Iran is engaged in the development of nuclear arms.
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