Iran: If Israel attacks us, we'll target its nuclear facilities

        Iran threatened Saturday to strike Israel's nuclear installations if it is attacked by the Jewish state, Reuters reported. "If the Zionist Regime attacks Iran, we will surely strike its nuclear facilities with our missile capabilities," Revolutionary Guards commander-in-chief Mohammad Ali Jafari told Iran's Arabic language al-Alam TV station. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem on Friday said he believed his country could play a role in finding a political solution to nuclear and other disputes between Iran and the West. "We support [a] political solution for issues standing between Iran and the West," Reuters quoted Moallem as saying in a news conference with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband. "For that, we believe we can play a role but we cannot take decisions on behalf of Iran. They have to take their decisions according to their interest," Moallem reportedly said during a visit to London. Moallem went on to tie the solution of the Iranian nuclear dispute to Israel's nuclear disarmament, repeating a longstanding Syrian proposal that the Middle East should be made a zone free of weapons of mass destruction, whether nuclear, chemical or biological. Syria's foreign minister said he had asked Miliband to press the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution on a weapons-free zone in the Middle East, which he said would have to include Israel. "We know that Israel is producing nuclear arms. This is how we can address the Iranian public opinion that there would be no double standard in approaching the nuclear program," he said. According to the news agency, Moallem refused to answer a question from a reporter for Israel Radio who asked whether Syria would stop the flow of weapons from Iran to Hizbullah. Miliband said Syria was in a "unique position to influence Iranian policy choices." "I think it's very, very important that we make clear to the Iranian authorities the significance ... of the policy choices that the new government makes, because there is a very clear offer on the table in respect of its nuclear, but also its wider regional perspectives," Miliband said. Earlier on Friday, Syria's foreign minister said his country was working to rebuild its diplomatic relationship with the United States. The US special envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell will visit Damascus on Saturday for meetings with President Bashar Assad and other officials as part of US attempts to improve its ties with Syria and to resume Syria-Israeli talks. (14,00)