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Iran Will Beat Back U.S. and Israeli Invasion: Seyed Ali Khamenei

Tehran, March 23 (KCNA) -- Seyed Ali Khamenei, leader of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, in a speech on March 20 declared that Iran would beat back the invasion by the U.S. and Israel.

Iran will neither have access to nuclear weapons nor make them but will take self-defensive retaliatory steps of the same level as any aggression by the U.S. or Israel, he warned.