Iran will harshly confront Israel "wherever it feels necessary," the head of the Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force said on Thursday, according to the semi-official Nour News agency.
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"Wherever we identify a Zionist threat, we will harshly confront them, they are too small to confront us," said Esmail Qaani, whose unit is in control of the Revolutionary Guard's foreign operations.
In March, Iran targeted what it called "secret Israeli bases" during a missile attack on Iraq's northern Kurdish regional capital of Erbil. The assault was meant to avenge Israeli airstrikes that killed Iranian military officials in Syria.
Qaani pledged to support any group that fights the "Zionist regime" and added that "the destruction of this regime is gaining ground."
News comes as Iran and world powers continue negotiations over the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal. Israel adamantly opposes the agreement, saying it will jeopardize its national security.
Meanwhile, Iran began operating a new workshop at Natanz that will make parts for uranium-enriching centrifuges with machines recently moved there from its mothballed Karaj facility, the UN nuclear watchdog said in a report on Thursday seen by Reuters.
"On 12 April 2022, the agency completed the installation of the surveillance cameras at this location and then removed the seals from the machines," the International Atomic Energy Agency said in the confidential report to member states without describing where at Natanz the location was.
"On 13 April 2022, Iran informed the Agency that the machines would start operating at the new workshop the same day," it added, without saying whether it had verified that the machines had started operating.
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