Iran 'out of Israel's reach'

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today claimed Israel could not harm Iran, even as the Jewish state expanded its offensive into Lebanon to target the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

“Despite the barbaric and criminal nature of the occupiers of Jerusalem, the regime and its Western supporters do not even have the power to give Iran a nasty look,” the agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying in Osku, in north-western Iran.