Hezbollah says Iran able to bombard Israel if war started
The head of Lebanon’s Tehran-backed Hezbollah said on Friday
that US ally Israel would not be “neutral” if a war broke out between the
United States and Iran.
And “Iran is able to bombard Israel with ferocity and
force,” Hassan Nasrallah said in an interview broadcast on Hezbollah’s Al-Manar
television.
His remarks came after weeks of increasing tensions between
the United States and Iran as US President Donald Trump steps up his war of
words with the Islamic Republic.
“When the Americans understand that this war could wipe out
Israel, they will reconsider,” Nasrallah said.
“Our collective responsibility in the region is to work
towards preventing an American war on Iran,” he said.
Hezbollah is considered to be a terrorist organization by
the United States, and is the only faction not to have disarmed after the
Lebanese 1975-1990 civil war.
But it is also a major political player in the small
Mediterranean country, taking 13 seats in parliament last year and securing
three posts in the current cabinet.
