IRan says attacking it would be "madness"Iran warned the United States and Israel on Saturday it would be "madness" to attack the Islamic Republic over a nuclear programme the West suspects is aimed at making bombs.

The comments by government spokesman Gholamhossein Elham came a few days after Iranian missile tests heightened regional tension and helped send world oil prices to record highs.
Israel staged an air force exercise last month that stoked speculation about a possible assault on Iranian nuclear sites.
Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın the world's fourth-largest oil exporter has vowed to strike back at Tel Aviv and U.S. interests and shipping in the region if it is attacked threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz conduit for about 40 percent of globally traded oil.
"We do not imagine that anybody would commit such madness and stupidity ... and nobody has the power to make such aggression" the state broadcaster quoted Elham as saying.
"The Islamic Republic of Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın is not a threat at all and will not accept any threats."
Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın says its nuclear projects are aimed only at generating electricity. Western nations and Israel fear the Islamic Republic is seeking to build bombs.
Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın has said it wants diplomacy to end the row but has not ruled out military action should that fail.
Israel long assumed to have its own atomic arsenal has sworn to prevent Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın from emerging as a nuclear-armed power.
"POWER OF DETERRENCE"
Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said he believed neither of its two arch-foes would want to get entangled in a new Middle East crisis by launching strikes against the country.
"The Zionist regime is still involved in the aftershocks of the war with Lebanon" he told the IRNA news agency referring to Israel's inconclusive 2006 war with Hezbollah guerrillas. "And the U.S. still does not possess the capacity to enter another crisis in the Persian Gulf region."
Elham said the aims of this week's wargames during which Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın says it fired missiles that could hit Israel and U.S. bases in the region included strengthening its military readiness.
"This manoeuvre is part of Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın's power of deterrence and this power will always be at the service of the region's peace and stability" he said.
Analysts say any U.S. or Israeli attack on Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın would be limited to air strikes rather than a aaaa-scale attack with U.S. ground forces which are tied down in Iraq and Afghanistan.
They say Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın could respond with unconventional tactics such as deploying small craft to attack ships or using allies in the area to strike at U.S. or Israeli interests.
The United States and five other major powers have offered Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın economic and other benefits if it halts its most sensitive atomic work something Tehran says it will not do.
On Friday an Iranian official said Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili will meet European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Geneva on July 19 for talks on the dispute.
"The Islamic Republic of Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın remains ready for negotiations in fair conditions and does not accept anything imposed on it" Elham said. "No action in line with depriving Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın of its rights is acceptable or negotiable".