About Us

IMRA
IMRA
IMRA

 

Subscribe

Search


...................................................................................................................................................


Sunday, November 23, 2014
Hezbollah: New Iranian-supplied missiles can hit Israel with pinpoint accuracy

New Iranian-supplied missiles can hit Israel with pinpoint accuracy:
Hezbollah
The Daily Star Nov. 23, 2014 | 01:51 PM (Last updated: November 23, 2014 |
05:43 PM)
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2014/Nov-23/278605-iran-equipped-hezbollah-with-advanced-missiles-report.ashx#axzz3JulPdh00

BEIRUT: New missiles provided by Iran have changed the equation in Hezbollah’s
fight against Israel and has given the resistance an upper-hand, the party’s
deputy head Naim Qassem said Sunday.

“Such issue [missiles] is a trump card in the equation of war between the
resistance forces and the Israeli enemy,” Qassem told Iran’s Tasnim News
Agency, which is known to be close to the revolutionary guard.

The comments came after news emerged that Tehran has equipped Hezbollah with
a new grade of medium-range missiles, known as Fateh-class missiles.

An Iranian military commander earlier this month said the Fateh missiles
"are able to attack all targets from southern to northern parts of the
occupied territories."

Qassem said that Israel is well aware of the fact that “Hezbollah possesses
missiles with pinpoint accuracy.”

This enhanced arsenal, paired with Hezbollah’s readiness for any future war,
would make a forthcoming confrontation “much tougher for Israelis,” he said.

According to Qassem, by supplying the missiles and providing Hezbollah with
the necessary training on their construction and assembly, Iran has played a
“fundamental and pivotal” role in boosting Hezbollah’s missile capabilities,
Qassem said.

Improved missile capabilities however, do not only entail the quantity of
Iranian missiles delivered to the resistance, but also includes the
necessary items for missile launching and construction.

The deputy head noted that Iran has not only shipped missiles to Lebanon,
but also trained Hezbollah’s forces in the preparation and launching of the
projectiles.

Qassem dismissed reports that claim Iran’s missile power might pose a threat
to regional Arab states.

The “unreasonable” claims, he said, overlook the fact that Iran’s arsenal
benefits the region and contributes to regional security.

“Such missile capability supports, firstly, Iran’s government and
Revolution, and secondly, serves the resistance in the face of the Israeli
enemy and serves the regional governments as well,” he concluded.

Tehran has equipped Hezbollah with a new grade of medium-range missiles,
known as Fateh-class missiles, an Iranian military commander has said.

Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace
Force Brigadier General Seyed Majid Moussavi told Qiam Sejjilha magazine
earlier this month that Hezbollah had received the Fateh missiles.

"Based on what has been announced so far, their operational missile
capability includes a fully vast, but of course hidden, [number and type of]
Fateh class missiles, and this missile
capability can be used and has been
organized," Moussavi said.

Moussavi also said that the late-commander and head of the IRGC Missile
Research Center, Major General Tehrani Moqaddam, supported and helped
Hezbollah and the Palestinian resistance groups to develop missile
capabilities.

Search For An Article

....................................................................................................

Contact Us

POB 982 Kfar Sava
Tel 972-9-7604719
Fax 972-3-7255730
email:imra@netvision.net.il IMRA is now also on Twitter
http://twitter.com/IMRA_UPDATES

image004.jpg (8687 bytes)