Leader: Hizbollah Won't Disarm
TEHRAN (Dispatches) - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday that Hizbollah will not disarm despite calls from Israel and United States for the group to do so.
"The American president says Hizbollah should be disarmed. It is obvious that you (America) want that, and it is obvious that the Zionists (Israel) wants that too. But it will not happen," he said, according to Reuters.
"The Lebanese people appreciate the resistance because their powerful limbs have been responsible for not allowing the Zionists whatever they want, whenever they want in Lebanon," he added.
In a speech carried on state television, Ayatollah Khamenei branded "Zionists" as "an evil and cancerous being and an infected tumor".
"The Zionists wanted Lebanon to be the meat between their teeth. The powerful limbs of Hezbollah have prevented the Zionists' dream of trouble from being realized," he said, AFP reported.
His comments, on the fifth day of an Israeli onslaught against its northern neighbor following Hezbollah's capture of two soldiers, prompted chants of "Hezbollah will win, Israel will be destroyed".
Ayatollah Khamenei replied: "Yes, that is what we say". "The U.S. says Hezbollah must be disarmed. This will not happen," the supreme leader said of the group, which has pounded Israel with rockets and whose leader Hassan Nasrallah has declared "open war".
The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, General Yahya Rahim Safavi, meanwhile, said the country's Supreme National Security Council was to hold an emergency meeting on the conflict yesterday.
"It is the Supreme Leader and the president who will take decisions and this meeting will be dedicated to examining the decisions to be taken," he was quoted as saying by the semi-official Mehr news agency.
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TEHRAN (Dispatches) - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday that Hizbollah will not disarm despite calls from Israel and United States for the group to do so.
"The American president says Hizbollah should be disarmed. It is obvious that you (America) want that, and it is obvious that the Zionists (Israel) wants that too. But it will not happen," he said, according to Reuters.
"The Lebanese people appreciate the resistance because their powerful limbs have been responsible for not allowing the Zionists whatever they want, whenever they want in Lebanon," he added.
In a speech carried on state television, Ayatollah Khamenei branded "Zionists" as "an evil and cancerous being and an infected tumor".
"The Zionists wanted Lebanon to be the meat between their teeth. The powerful limbs of Hezbollah have prevented the Zionists' dream of trouble from being realized," he said, AFP reported.
His comments, on the fifth day of an Israeli onslaught against its northern neighbor following Hezbollah's capture of two soldiers, prompted chants of "Hezbollah will win, Israel will be destroyed".
Ayatollah Khamenei replied: "Yes, that is what we say". "The U.S. says Hezbollah must be disarmed. This will not happen," the supreme leader said of the group, which has pounded Israel with rockets and whose leader Hassan Nasrallah has declared "open war".
The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, General Yahya Rahim Safavi, meanwhile, said the country's Supreme National Security Council was to hold an emergency meeting on the conflict yesterday.
"It is the Supreme Leader and the president who will take decisions and this meeting will be dedicated to examining the decisions to be taken," he was quoted as saying by the semi-official Mehr news agency.
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