Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said on Sunday that the Iranian military will give a "crushing response" to any threat against the country's territorial integrity and independence, the official IRNA news agency reported.
"One of the U.S. threats is economic sanctions which will be ineffective," Najjar told IRNA on the occasion of the Sacred Defense Week, which marks the Iran-Iraq war in 1980s.
He said Iran is fully self-sufficient in terms of defense equipment production, playing down the possible U.S. sanctions against his country.
The Iranian defense minister said that the U.S. threat to attack Iran is a mere psychological warfare because Washington has bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The United States has been seeking to impose tougher sanctions on Iran through the UN Security Council on the grounds that Tehran is developing a nuclear weapon program under the guise of a civilian-use program.
Meanwhile, Washington has never ruled out military action against Iran's suspicious nuclear targets.
While strongly denying the U.S. allegations, Iran has insisted that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes and voiced hope for talks to defuse the nuclear standoff.
Source: Xinhua
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