I highly doubt Israel is banking on Turkey coming to their defense.

TEHRAN — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused Turkey of agreeing to install an early warning system that is designed to protect Israel against Iranian missile attack if war breaks out between Iran and Israel.

“The missile defense shield is aimed at defending the Zionist regime. They don’t want to let our missiles land in the occupied territories [Israel] if one day they take action against us. That’s why they put it there,” Ahmadinejad told the Iranian nation in a televised address late Tuesday.

Turkey, a NATO member, agreed in September to deploy a NATO early warning radar system in the country’s southeast as part of the organization’s missile defense system.

Although the early warning system is designed specifically to counter the threat of missile attack from Iran, Turkey has maintained Iran has not been singled out as a threat. This is despite the fact that Iran has recently test-fired long-range ballistic missiles capable of hitting anywhere in Europe and is trying to develop nuclear warheads for them.

A Turkish government official was quoted by the Associated Press as saying a military installation in Kurecik, some 435 miles west of the Iranian border.

Ahmadinejad said in his television address that his government has condemned Turkey’s decision to station the early warning radar system. “We told our Turkish friends that it was not a correct job [decision] they did and that it’s to their detriment,” he said. “Such shields can’t prevent the collapse of the Zionist regime.”