Pakistan 'tells Iran they will NUKE Israel if Netanyahu uses nuclear weapons against Tehran',
By PERKIN AMALARAJ
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.
Today, Pakistan's defence minister Khwaja Asif denied Rezaee's claims, reportedly saying: 'Pakistan is signatory to all international nuclear disciplines; our nuclear capability is for our people's benefit and defence against hostile designs.'
Last night, he 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)
General Mohsen Rezaee (pictured) claimed that Pakistan has vowed to 'stand behind Iran'
MailOnline has contacted Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs for comment.
After decades of enmity and proxy wars, Israel's assault on Iran last week has touched off the most intense fighting yet and triggered fears of a lengthy conflict that could engulf the entire Middle East.
Israel says its attacks have hit military and nuclear facilities and killed many top commanders and atomic scientists.
But a senior US official said Sunday that US President Donald Trump told Israel to back down from a plan to kill supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Trump has urged the foes to 'make a deal', but told reporters Sunday that 'sometimes they have to fight it out' first.
This morning, Iran fired a new salvo of missiles at Israel, triggering air raid sirens across the country as emergency services reported that five people had died and dozens more were wounded in Israel on the fourth day of escalating violence.
The attacks came in retaliation for Israel's sweeping attacks on its military and nuclear infrastructure, which have killed at least 224 people in the country since last Friday.
The attacks raised Israel's total death toll to at least 19, and in response the Israeli military said fighter jets had struck 10 command centers in Tehran belonging to Iran's Quds Force, an elite arm of its Revolutionary Guard that conducts military and intelligence operations outside Iran.
Powerful explosions, likely from Israel's defense systems intercepting Iranian missiles, rocked Tel Aviv shortly before dawn on Monday, sending plumes of black smoke into the sky over the coastal city.
Authorities in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva said that Iranian missiles had hit a residential building there, charring concrete walls, shattering windows and ripping the walls off multiple apartments.
The Israeli Magen David Adom emergency service reported that two women and two men - all in their 70s - and one other person were killed in the wave of missile attacks that struck four sites in central Israel.
More to follow.
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