Iranian military rejects revolutionary guards' claim

The Iranian military today rejected a statement from a top Revolutionary Guards commander that Israel would be Iran’s first retaliatory target in response to any US attack, according to an Iranian news agency.

Brig Gen Alireza Afshar, an armed forces spokesman and deputy to Iran’s Chief of Military Staff, said Mohammad Ebrahim Dehghani’s statement “is his personal view and has no validity as far as the Iranian military officials are concerned,” according to the Entekhab News Agency.