Hezbollah founder says group’s missiles can hit whole of Israel
TEHRAN, Aug 3: One of the Iranian founders of Lebanon’s Hezbollah said in remarks published on Thursday that the group had missiles which ‘leave no spot in Israel unreachable’.
“Hezbollah’s arsenal not only includes Katyusha missiles, but also Zelzal-2 missiles, which could hit targets as far as 250 kilometres, leaving no spot in Israel unreachable,” Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pour, a cleric, told the centrist Shargh newspaper.
Mohtshami-Pour, Iran’s former ambassador to Syria during the early 1980s, did not say where the missiles were made.
“Hezbollah managed to equip itself in the past five years,” he noted, implicitly referring to Israel’s pullout from southern Lebanon in 2000.
His comments were backed by the Hezbollah representative in Iran, Abdullah Safeyodin.
“The reason we have aimed at Haifa is because it is a vital target .... but if it is deemed necessary we will target Tel Aviv,” Safeyodin was quoted as saying by Iranian papers.—AFP
