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Iran's Hizbollah says ready to attack US
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Hizbollah, which claims links to
the Lebanese group of the same name, said on Tuesday it stood ready to attack
Israeli and U.S. interests worldwide.
"We have 2,000 volunteers who have registered since
last year," said Iranian Hizbollah's spokesman Mojtaba Bigdeli, speaking
by telephone from the central seminary city of Qom.
"They have been trained and they can become fully
armed. We are ready to dispatch them to every corner of the world to jeopardise
Israel and America's interests. We are only waiting for the Supreme Leader's
green light to take action. If America wants to ignite World War Three ... we
welcome it," he said.
Iranian religious organisations have made great public show
of recruiting volunteers for "martyrdom-seeking operations" in recent
years, usually threatening U.S. interests in case of any attack against the
Islamic Republic's nuclear programme.
Iran's Hizbollah (Party of God) says it is spiritually bound
to Shi'ite Muslim guerrillas in Lebanon but its command structure and funding
are unclear.
They have attacked the US before. They are the ones associated with killing
over 200 US marines with a truck bomb.
Iran seems to want this to happen but as of yet there are not many
Islamic states behind them.