TEHRAN - An IRGC official in charge of nuclear protection and security threatened on Thursday that if Israel launches attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, the Zionist regime will surely face "tit-for-tat" retaliation with “advanced weapons” by the Islamic Republic.

"If the Zionist regime decides to take action against our nuclear facilities and centers, it will definitely face our reaction," Nuclear Protection and Security Corps chief General Ahmad Haqtalab asserted.

Haqtalab issued the stern warning after Israeli officials have made suggestions about a possible attack on Iran's nuclear sites following Iran’s Operation True Promise to in response to Israel which assassinated seven Iranian military advisors in Iran’s consulate in Damascus on April 1.

Attack on diplomatic premises is considered attack on a country’s territory based on the Charter 51 of the United Nations.

"If the fake Zionist regime decides to use the threat of attacking our country's nuclear centers as a tool to put pressure on Iran, it is possible and conceivable to revise the nuclear doctrine and policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran and digress from the previously declared considerations," the IRGC official stated, Press TV reported.  

General Haqtalab added, "The nuclear centers of the Zionist enemy have been identified and the necessary information about all the targets is at our disposal, and in order to respond to their possible actions, the hands are on the trigger, so to speak, for firing powerful missiles to destroy the identified targets."

"Thanks to ... our highly advanced facilities and equipment, as well as due to the dispersion of our country's nuclear facilities and complexes in the vast land of Iran, we are ready to deal with any threat from the Zionist regime," he said.

The senior military officer said Israel's threats are not new and "the fake Zionist regime, in addition to threats, has engaged in sabotage and terrorist acts" against Iran's nuclear industry before.

"Although, based on international protocols and standards and the rules and regulations of the International Atomic Energy Agency, all countries have been prevented from attacking nuclear facilities, the Islamic Republic of Iran has always been prepared to deal with these threats from the very beginning," he noted.

The general went on to assure the Iranian citizens that country’s nuclear facilities are in complete security.