Iranian FM spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said that Iran is dismissing Zionist threats of an imminent attack against it..

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said that Iran is dismissing Zionist threats of an imminent attack against it, explaining that even some Zionist officials realized such a "stupid" act would provoke "very severe consequences," Agence France Presse reported Tuesday.

"In our calculations, we aren't taking these claims very seriously because we see them as hollow and baseless," he told reporters in a weekly briefing.

"Even if some officials in the illegitimate regime (the Zionist entity) want to carry out such a stupid action, there are those inside (the Zionist government) who won't allow it because they know they would suffer very severe consequences from such an act," he said.

Iran's defense minister, General Ahmad Vahidi, was quoted by the ISNA news agency saying that the Zionist entity "definitely doesn't have what it takes to endure Iran's might and will."

He called the Zionist threats "a sign of weakness" by "brainless leaders."

The comments were a response to bellicose rhetoric from Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak in recent days suggesting they were thinking more seriously of military action against Iranian peaceful nuclear facilities.

Mehmanparast announced however that the Islamic Republic of Iran, by no means, will accept suspension of Syrian membership at the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC), state-run news agency reported.

He also stressed that such a move has been the result of negligence regarding the Zionist regime's conspiracies in the region.