Iran Issues Threat Against U.S. Nuclear Sites and Foreign Interests

State-controlled Iranian radio, in an apparent threat of terrorist action inside the United States, warned Tuesday that U.S. nuclear reactors “can be more vulnerable” than Iran’s missile bases.

“Clashes with the Islamic Republic of Iran will be extensive” if the United States attacks the missile bases, the radio said in a commentary monitored in Athens. “U.S. nuclear centers and reactors can be more vulnerable than the (Iranian) missile bases.”

It also said, “American interests in the world are so spread out as to be . . . vulnerable in the event of clashes. . . .”

The broadcast followed warnings by U.S. officials that American planes might make preemptive strikes if Iran begins deploying Chinese-made Silkworm missiles in the Strait of Hormuz.

However, analysts said that Iran was, by implication, threatening to launch terrorist attacks against reactors on American soil and possibly on U.S. interests outside American territory.

The State Department had no comment on the Iranian threat.