Iran's first target would be Israel in any response to a U.S. attack, a Revolutionary Guards commander said Tuesday, according to a report of the Associated Press. "We have announced that wherever (in Iran) America does make any mischief, the first place we target will be Israel," the Iranian Student News Agency quoted Gen. Mohammad Ebrahim Dehghani as saying. Dehghani, a top commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards, also said Israel was not prepared to go to war against Iran. "We will definitely resist ... U.S. B-52 (bombers)," Dehghani was quoted as saying. On Tuesday, Israeli elder statesman Shimon Peres called on Iran to scrap its nuclear program and warned: "Remember that Israel is exceptionally strong and knows how to defend itself." U.S. President George W. Bush has said a military option remains on the table if Iran does not agree to international demands for it to stop enriching uranium and open its nuclear program to inspections. However, Bush said he wants to solve the dispute through diplomacy.
