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Pakistan has threatened to drop a nuclear warhead on Israel if Benjamin Netanyahu uses nuclear weapons against Iran, according to a top Iranian officer.
General Mohsen Rezaee, a senior officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and a member of Iran’s National Security Council, said in an interview: ‘Pakistan has assured us that if Israel uses a nuclear bomb on Iran, they will attack Israel with a nuclear bomb.’
Pakistan and Israel are two of the nine countries that currently possess nuclear weapons, according to experts.
Rezaee claimed that Pakistan has vowed to ‘stand behind Iran’, and called on the Islamic world to unite against Israel.
So far, Pakistan has not commented on Rezaee’s claims, though last night its defence minister Khwaja Asif noted that the world appears to be teetering on the edge of conflict as a result of the escalating attacks in the Middle East.
‘[The] Western world must worry about conflicts generated by Israel.
‘It will engulf the whole region and beyond; their patronage of Israel, a rogue state, can have catastrophic consequences.’
Pakistan has threatened to drop a nuclear warhead on Israel if Benjamin Netanyahu uses nuclear weapons against Iran (File image of a Pakistani Shaheen II ballistic missile)
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