The Associated Press
TEL AVIV – A senior Iranian general warned Saturday that Tehran will increase its missile range beyond 2,000 kilometers if Europe threatens it in any way.
Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami, deputy head of the Revolutionary Guards, further added that Israel’s reluctance to go to war with Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah is because it knows that doing so will lead to its annihilation.
“If we have kept the range of our missiles to 2,000 kilometers, it’s not due to lack of technology. … We are following a strategic doctrine,” he said, according to a Reuters translation of a Fars report.
“So far we have felt that Europe is not a threat, so…