Iran flexes its military muscle by using Hezbollah to threaten Israel

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Major General Yahya Rahim-SafaviA senior Iranian military official warned on Thursday that any Israeli attack would unleash a firestorm of missiles on its cities fired by the Islamic republic’s Hezbollah allies in Lebanon.

The Shiite militia has more than 80,000 rockets ready to fire at Tel Aviv and Haifa, said General Yahya Rahim Safavi, military adviser to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

“Iran, with the help of Hezbollah and its friends, is capable of destroying Tel Aviv and Haifa in case of military aggression on the part of the Zionists,” he said, quoted on state television.

“I don’t think the Zionists would be so unintelligent as to create a military problem with Iran,” the general said. “They know the strength of Iran and Hezbollah.”

Last week, a senior Israeli military intelligence official warned of a heightened threat of conflict over the next two years as a result of “escalation” in the region.

In a briefing to foreign journalists at the defence ministry in Tel Aviv, the official referred specifically to Hezbollah, with whom Israel fought a month-long war in 2006, and to Iran’s arming of the group.

“The Iranian threat is a tangible threat to Israel,” said the official, whose country has not ruled out the use of military force to block any attempt by Tehran to produce a nuclear bomb.

Israel has opposed the efforts of world powers to strike a deal with Iran curbing its nuclear programme in return for an easing of economic sanctions, saying that Tehran cannot be trusted.

Iran has long asserted that its nuclear programme is for peaceful energy purposes, and that international concern about it seeking a nuclear bomb is misplaced.

Yahoo/AFP

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6 responses to “Iran flexes its military muscle by using Hezbollah to threaten Israel”

  1. MekensehParty Avatar
    MekensehParty

    woof woof woof woof
    hehehe

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      80,000 rockets … why not say 100,000 … There must be enough guys left to light them all. ;-))

      1. Rascal Avatar

        Maybe they should use some of these 80K of rockets in Syria so they would not be loosing so much territory for Assad?

      2. MekensehParty Avatar
        MekensehParty

        the “Emm Ali”s are working on that
        “ta3a krotni ya Abu Ali – we need a new Ali to light these rockets”
        wahahahaha

  2. Rascal Avatar

    As long as there is no reason for Israel to return fire to Iran all incoming fire from Iran will only come from Lebanon to preserve the Iranian homeland from war.

  3. kbw yarmuk Avatar
    kbw yarmuk

    just… BS !

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