IRAN'S HIZBOLLAH SAYS READY TO ATTACK US, ISRAEL

[fagash_killer]

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Hizbollah, which claims links to the Lebanese group of the same name, said on Tuesday it stood ready to attack Israeli and U.S. interests worldwide.

"We have 2,000 volunteers who have registered since last year," said Iranian Hizbollah's spokesman Mojtaba Bigdeli, speaking by telephone from the central seminary city of Qom.

"They have been trained and they can become fully armed. We are ready to dispatch them to every corner of the world to jeopardise Israel and America's interests. We are only waiting for the Supreme Leader's green light to take action. If America wants to ignite World War Three ... we welcome it," he said.

Iranian religious organisations have made great public show of recruiting volunteers for "martyrdom-seeking operations" in recent years, usually threatening U.S. interests in case of any attack against the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme.



But there is no record of an Iranian volunteer from these recruitment campaigns taking part in an attack.

Iran's Hizbollah (Party of God) says it is spiritually bound to Shi'ite Muslim guerrillas in Lebanon but its command structure and funding are unclear.

Despite Iranian Hizbollah's insistence that it takes orders from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, government ministries say Hizbollah does not implement official policy. Iran's government has said it hopes for a diplomatic solution to the Israeli offensive in Lebanon.

While Iran did fund and support Lebanese Hizbollah during the 1980s, Tehran says it has not contributed troops or weapons in the latest violence. Israel says Iranian armaments have been fired against it.



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[eyes-only]

You gotta love the Iranians. By the way, that is a load of rubbish. Iran doesn't need to carry out martyrdom operations yet.

[fagash_killer]

this only means that Iran is ready for "World War III?"

[eyes-only]

Like any country, they should be ready to defend themselves but I donÂ’t think they will ever wage a pre-emptive attack on anyone. American is the aggressor that funded Saddam Hussein to attack Iran; they have a good reason to stand against America in their funding of Israel.

[Gacalisa]

2,000


this is a joke, what on earth will 2,000 people do, compared to hundreds of thousands, maybe close to a million. combine ameican and islraeli soldeirs,oh dont forget the french and the english.


Iran can not be ready, they may have the gutts but not the capability.

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

This is all just talk for consumption in local politics. The Iranians have no more of a vested interest in general warfare in the gulf than anyone else.