Ahmadinejad: Israel will be destroyed if it attacks Hezbollah
Region should be delivered from Israel's 'evil ways' forever, Iranian president tells Nasrallah.
By The Associated Press Tags: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Hassan Nasrallah Iran Israel newsIran's president on Thursday said that if the Israelis launch a new war against Lebanon's Hezbollah, the militant group should retaliate strong enough to close their case once and for all.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments, in a conversation with Hezbollah's leader, were the latest in a heated exchange of rhetoric between Israel and Lebanon and Syria this months in which all sides have been warning the other not to start a war.
Speaking by phone, Ahmadinejad urged Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah to prepare his fighters to be able to retaliate strongly against any Israeli attack.
"The preparations should be of the level that, if they [the Israelis] want to repeat the mistakes of the past [by attacking], then their case should be closed once and for all and the region delivered from their evil ways forever," the Iranian president said, according to the state news agency IRNA.
"The people of Iran will stand by the people of Lebanon and the region in this," he said. Nasrallah dismissed any fears, saying Israeli threats "will lead to nothing."
Iran is a key supporter of Hezbollah, believed to funnel it weapons and millions of dollars in funding, though Tehran denies arming the Shiite group.
Hezbollah, also closely allied to Syria, boasts a heavy arsenal of rockets capable of reaching deep inside Israel.
The past month has seen increased sabre-rattling between Israel and Syria, Hezbollah and Lebanon - though there's been little apparent cause on the ground for the warnings of a new war. Hezbollah and Israel fought a monthlong war in 2006 that wreaked destruction in south Lebanon and parts of Beirut. But since then, Hezbollah has refrained from firing rockets across the border.
In a speech aired nationally in Lebanon this week, Nasrallah vowed that if Israel attacks again, his fighters would retaliate in kind, striking Tel Aviv or Israel's international airport on the city's outskirts.
Lebanon's prime minister also warned of escalating Israeli war threats and vowed Lebanon would support Hezbollah in any fight. The prime minister, Saad Hariri, is a pro-U.S. figure and longtime rival of Hezbollah, but the group is now a member of his national unity government.
Earlier in the month, Syria's president Bashar Assad accused Israel of avoiding peace, and its prime minister warned that if war broke out, Israeli cities would be attacked. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman replied that if Damascus draws Israel into a war, its army would be defeated and the Syrian regime would collapse.
Hezbollah can't hurt Israel's cities
A former Lebanese army general said on Thursday that despite its arsenal of long-range rockets, Hezbollah is incapable of seriously damaging Israel's major cities.
Lebanon's Zilzal rockets have a range of up to 400 kilometers but can only carry relatively small 65 kilogram warhead, Wehbe Katisha told the Saudi daily Okaz.
Such a payload would barely be enough to destroy a single residential apartment, Katisha said.
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i remember waking up on the 14th of August 2006, hearing that 300 rockets fell down on israel before the cease-fire at 8AM, just tell me... how did you shoot those down before they were fired?... furthermore, beirut itself was never bombed, that's why Tel Aviv wasn't bombed, but now it's another case, if anything in Lebanon is hit, Tel Aviv will be hit
I feel like a foolish idiot. Then I read the stuff these people like Ahmadinejad say.. the evidence appears to suggest that being smart is a matter of being less stupid, and reading this sort of stuff makes me "smart." Any attempt Ahmadinejad and his minions make at destroying Israel will have the opposite effect, just like trying to smash a golfball with an egg.
What is about to take place was forcasted 3000 years ago so stap on your seat belts and hold your breath because we have no control of this Road only GOD does.
- ie their own master clown & deceiver, the sheikh himself, & his iranian colleague (as well as the mullah apparatus keeping him in place). there won't be any comprehensive peace in the ME very soon, ie including neither lebanon nor their syrian big brother. there may be an arrangement to keep the borders quiet, after israel & the PA have managed to agree on a final settlement of their conflict & an independent pal. state has got feet to stand on. the golan will remain in limbo, probably the sheba farms area as well for some time. what's crucial, though, is that the iranian regime will fall, the loud monster's voice about someone else's fall silenced & the lifeblood of the sheikh's little army cut for good. the lebanese will have to make up their mind about their choices then. a few of the bloggers here will have their much-wished-for nervous breakdown. good luck to everybody.
All pals in Lebanon are forbidden to live outside the camps and prohibited to work except in a few professions.
If history is any judge,no doubt the Islamo-Fascist regime in Iran and its leader Ahmadinejad will be overthrown while Israel will only get stronger. History is full of dictators who threatened the Jews with total destruction. Where are they now? Answer: in the dustbin of history!
Is this a warning to Israel after the probable successful Israeli espionage attack on Hamas' Leader Mabhoud ? Is Israel beginning to act impudently and Iran does not like it.......
I thought Israel was going to be destroyed anyway. So if Israel doesn't attach H., it won't be destroyed?
Where were the Zelzal rockets in 2006? Again Israel will take them out before they even get fired.
Given all the injustices Zionism has inflicted and keeps inflicting on Palestinians and other Arabs, an end to Zionism is a very noble ideal. I share that ideal with Ahmedinejad.
It doesnt matter what Israel stated, what matters is what she does. If u guys are after real peace then start peace with the Palestinians at home. U cant have peace with others unless u have it first with them. Give them their rights of having a country of their own. Wake up people, u r paving the way to ur own destruction, wake up before it's late. We also want peace and interested in real peace. Let's do it.
The first Hezbollah rocket that lands anywhere near BGA will mean gloves off no messing around like Olmert did. Israel will cripple Lebanon & it will take years to rebuild. Syria would almost certainly be considered to have played a part and Damascus would be bombed. Israel does not sit by and allow its cities to be bombed . In 1991 the US had a hard time holding Israel back when Saddam started firing scuds. Yitzhak Shamir was under alot of pressure to do something in the end the US only managed to buy him off by sending Patriot missiles, US part funding the development of the Arrow and Israel was allowed to choose a number of targets in Iraq which the US would bomb Pressure Bibi into attacking Lebanon & Syria and he will do it even Obama won't be able to hold him back because Bibi has to put the will of the voters first because he has to keep them happy to keep his job. Firing on Israeli cities would be like Lebanon & Syria signing a suicide note & there would be no mercy for them
No one really wants war at this time. Not Hamas, not Iran, and not even Israel . There will be no war as long as outcome can not be determined .
"Israel has not threatened anyone and has stated it wants peace with its neighbors." Have you been living under a rock?
1- More than anything else Ahmadinejad needs this war to divert the Iranian people's attention from his illegal actions in Iran. The same situation happened in 1979 just after Khomeini took power with the promise of letting all parties to be part of his government. But later on he mass excecuted all who opposed him.People were all shocked by what he was capable of and of his lies. But Saddam's attack on Iran saved his ass since everyone got busy defending the country and no one ever dared to ask what happened to Komeini's promises. 2- So far I have not seen anything said by Ahmadinejad which hurt Israel. All Israel has received from his comments was more support from the international community. So I would say Ahmadinejad is really working FOR Israel not against them. Tell me if I am wrong!
When will the Israelis wake up? the only way you will survive is giving the Palestinians their rights East Jerusalem/Gaza/WBank. It's only a matter of time the Muslims will walk to your houses. Don't you guys read history books? The "God" who gave you the "dead" of this land, Is the same "God" who told them to blow themselves on you. Every day they"re getting stronger and more advansed, your allies are fed up with your lies. the goverment is importing the left over of the thugs from Russia to live in Israel, and the real Israelis are moving to the US... I cannot believe after 30 years, Israel could not make one single friendship with any arabic country...doesn't this tell you something about your leaders?
There's a cold war going on in the Mideast, and apparently Beirut has decided to join in on the fun along with Dubai. The problem here is obvious, there's an arms race brewing and that could wind up with multiple countries bearing nuclear stockpiles. If anyone sets off the powderkeg, the entire Mideast could go off a la World War 1 Europe, and the result wouldn't be pretty, to say the least. Let's cut it out before it gets that far.
Does rather sound like all these poor people WANT war. Why cant they all just keep their mouths shut and give the world a break.
Have you noticed in the last week the coordinated message coming from multiple sources all of them false: First we had the Lebanese leader in France begging France to stop Israel from attacking. Second we had Nasrallah threatening Israel if they attack the airport. Third we have the monkey in Iran threatening Israel if they attack Hezbollah. Israel has not threatened anyone and has stated it wants peace with its neighbors. So we see an orchestrated disinformation PR campaign to make Israel appear aggressive just by repeating the same lie over and over again. It's the oldest PR trick in the book, repeat a lie often enough and people believe it is true. Even the France's leaders didn't fall for this PR trick. He told Lebanon control Hezbollah and there will never be a war. Israel won't start a war, they just finish them.
Ahmadinejad is all hot air.
Keep talking big mouth Ahmadinejad. In no time you will be crippled from the inside and the outside. Within 2 years you will no longer be the leader of Iran.
at all,"destroy" word doesn't even exist in Persian.
as if that formal lebanese army general (If he exists) can access hezbollah's arsenal... oh and the Zelzal rocket can carry a 600kg warhead