Iran will hit Israel if US does "evil"-agency

TEHRAN, May 2 (Reuters) Israel will be Iran's first target in response to any ''evil'' act by the United States, a senior commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards said today.

''We have announced that wherever America does something evil, the first place that we target will be Israel,'' Revolutionary Guards Rear Admiral Mohammad-Ebrahim Dehqani was quoted as saying by Iran's student news agency ISNA.

The United States says it wants Iran's nuclear standoff with the West solved diplomatically but has refused to rule out military action.

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