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Thursday, May 21, 2015
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Thursday, May 21, 2015
Iran warns Israel of 80,000 Hezbollah rockets
A senior Iranian military official warns 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, says 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 says, quoted on state television.
“I don’t think the Zionists would be so unintelligent as to create a military problem with Iran,” the general says. “They know the strength of Iran and Hezbollah.”
— AFP
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