TEL AVIV – A senior Iranian general warned Saturday that Tehran will increase its missile range beyond 2,000 kilometers if Europe threatens it in any way. Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami, deputy head of the Revolutionary Guards, further added that Israel’s reluctance to go to war with Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah is because it knows that doing so will lead to its annihilation. “If we have kept the range of our missiles to 2,000 kilometers, it’s not due to lack of technology. … We are following a strategic doctrine,” he said, according to a Reuters translation of a Fars report. “So far we have felt that Europe is not a threat, so we did not increase the range of our missiles. But if Europe wants to turn into a threat, we will increase the range of our missiles,” he added. In October, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards military force, Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, said that Iran’s 2,000-kilometer missile range could cover “most of American interest and forces” within the region and added that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had imposed limits on the country’s ballistic missile program. “Our missiles’ range is 2,000 kilometers, and that can be increased, but we believe this range is enough for