Tue Jan 27, 2015 4:12
DM: Iran to Make Utmost Efforts in Support of Hezbollah
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan
underlined the country's continued all-out support for the resistance
groups, including the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, and said Tehran will
spare no effort to arm the West Bank.


"The Islamic Republic of Iran's position on the Zionist regime is
unchangeable, and given the fact that the resistance stream is standing
against the Zionists and the terrorist and Takfiri groups, we will make our
utmost efforts to support and strengthen Hezbollah and the resistance of the
Lebanese people," Dehqan told reporters in Tehran on Tuesday.

Warning of Iran's crushing response to the recent Israeli air attack that
claimed the lives of several Hezbollah members and an Iranian military
adviser in Syria, he said it will certainly be responded in due time and
place.

Asked about Iran's promise to arm the West Bank in response to the Zionist
regime's attacks, Dehqan stressed, "Our position has not changed in this
regard. The constant and general policy of the Islamic Republic is arming
the West Bank and strengthening the resistance stream and Hezbollah forces
to confront the Zionists' usurping and occupying regime."

An Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) war veteran commander, Brigadier
General Mohammad Ali Allahdadi, was killed by the Israeli helicopter
gunships while providing military counseling services to the Syrian forces
in their fight against the Takfiri terrorists. The General was killed along
with a number of Hezbollah members in Quneitra in Syria's Golan Heights
earlier this month.

In addition to Brigadier General Allahdadi, the Israeli helicopter strike
killed the son of slain Hezbollah top commander Imad Mughniyeh and 4 others.

In relevant remarks last Tuesday, Commander of the IRGC Major General
Mohammad Ali Jafari warned Tel Aviv of the devastating response of the
regional resistance movements to Israel's recent air raid on the Syrian
Golan Heights.

“The IRGC will remain steadfast on the path to the collapse of the Zionist
regime of Israel through its continued support for the Lebanese and
Palestinian combatants, but this time it supports will be on a scale larger
than its supports during the 33-day and 51-day wars against the Israeli
army,” General Jafari said in a message released on the occasion of the
martyrdom of Allahdadi.

The Iranian top commander said resistance groups in the region would soon
give a crushing response to Israel's Sunday raid.

“The Zionists must wait for the devastating thunderbolts of the anti-Israel
resistance groups in the region," the Iranian commander warned.