Iran Commander: Hizbullah's Missile Power Improved
A senior commander of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards said Saturday that Hizbullah has dramatically improved its missile capabilities and can now pinpoint targets anywhere in Israel.
Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh said Israelis will see Hizbullah's new might should a war break out.
He said slain Hizbullah commander Hassan al-Laqqis played a key role in boosting the group's military strength, although he did not elaborate.
"He was a great, resourceful and very active Hizbullah commander whose works could be revealed should a Hizbullah-Israel war break out. He created great defense supplies," and was "one of Hizbullah's brains in the field of electronic war," Hajizadeh said.
The comments were posted on the Guard's website, sepahnews.com.
Al-Laqqis was assassinated last month near his residence in Hadath, in southern Beirut.
Top Revolutionary Guard commanders attended a service earlier this week in Tehran in commemoration of the slain commander.
Hajizadeh didn't say how Hizbullah's missile capability had improved, but The Wall Street Journal has reported that the group has been moving parts of advanced guided-missile systems to Lebanon from bases where it had stored them inside Syria.
U.S. officials told the Journal recently the weapons were transferred into Lebanon from Syria piece-by-piece to evade Israeli air strikes.
over 10 years
Damn, people don't get sarcasm these days!
over 10 years
The Resistance gets stronger by the day. Next time Israel decides to strike Lebanon, they will have fire raining upon them.
over 10 years
What secterian? I never heard them say anything secterian in my life.
over 10 years
Not true, there are sunnis in Hezbollah too.
over 10 years
Stop your whine already, and stop spreading lies that they are secterian when they are not.
over 10 years
Do you believe the world is flat too? Would not suprise me if you did. Your conspiracy theories are tiring texas, don't expect me to believe them.
over 10 years
No I get ya dude
over 10 years
A culture of death and destruction.
over 10 years
At least Bandar has accurate Astros II MLRS, not WW2 upgraded but still outdated and inaccurate katiousha/grad missile...
over 10 years
he knows how to use them, dont worry,
Outdated iranian crap is not iranian made, just cheap copies of chinese/north korean bad copies of russian stuff...
over 10 years
game69, you should be ashamed of making comments like this. Only lowlifes bring peoples families into arguments… Naharnet should ban you.
over 10 years
Why doesn't this stupid nut head fight Israel from his country: Iran? And why should HA have improved fire power - unless he considers HA a replacement to the government in Lebanon which will never happen? The Lebanese will fight this cancerous HA until killing it and the Shia in Lebanon return to the folds of their country.
over 10 years
(1). Well thank you Hezbollah for letting us know and the Israelis too about your new missiles capacity. Next time around the Israelis would have made their contingency plans to bombard us Lebanese using massive firepower. They'll turn our cities, towns and villages to dust. People will be blown to bits, your brave militiamen will try like in the past to fire from within schools, orphanages and other places of heavy civilian concentrations. Well dear Hezbollah, in 2006, the latency time between a fired missile and for the Israeli response using the GPS tracking system was about 6 minutes, now it's gone down to less than a minute or even less. In all probability the Israelis would have detected your movements well before your motor cycle mounted militiamen could shoot, but all the same, next time they'll turn us all into powder.
over 10 years
(2). And your leadership would still be in hiding, safely cocooned like a newborn. We Lebanese don't want any other war, 5alass, no more wars. You ya Hezbollah got us into this Syrian mess, despite all our warnings and advice which you kept ridiculing and refusing, now what again, you want to get us into another Israeli mess? For all I know, we have an army, the LAF, give them your weapons, join the army, and let the Lebanese State decide all matters of war and peace, not you. Damn!!!
over 10 years
it is so unlike HA to hide in schools and hospitals and fire on Israel.
over 10 years
Has anyone bothered to ask why twice, Qana was hit in that very same place? Has anyone bothered to ask why some of the very same people were carrying the shredded corpses of innocent and unsuspecting children? Why were the cameras so quick to cover these two identical stories, why? If anyone wishes to take time, why at least not make a search on the net, and see abundant coverage of Hezbollah firing rockets from within civilian concentrations? has anyone asked anything about why they used motorcross type cycles? Why weren't they so worried at the time about the heat signatures that were emitted from the exhaust pipes and engines, present well before the rockets launched? The game was then, 6 minutes, which now no longer exist, simple.
over 10 years
Southern, how about if I told you that two of the men carrying dead kids are known by some? Would Israel be so stupid on two occasions at a UN HQ in which civilians took refuge? I am not defending Israel in any way, but I am at pains to point out the automated responses of the Israeli defense missiles of the time, they go about a programmed calculus that followed heat signatures, it's the 6 minutes latency time of the time that Hezbollah exploited to cause what they are now accusing on Tsahal. I am still stressing on that valid point, that latency time is now gone, so what new tricks will HA use now? I know one thing, it all smells bad for the ordinary person in Lebanon, all because people like you keep telling us that we need this so-called resistance of yours. I used to honor it once, back in 2000, now anymore.
over 10 years
**..Not anymore...**
over 10 years
anonymous : sure they care as the more martyrs there are , the better they are selling their soup!
over 10 years
I always wondered why would Israel target and hit that two/three story "white building" full of school children that was on the new 24 hours a day, and why those children were not evacuated to begin with right after this alleged war started? Like Lebanon is not familiar with war?
over 10 years
Propaganda and lies ..sexing this up to make them look good
We all know better ..keep you rockets in your pockets
over 10 years
When the time will come and Hezballa will make a stupid attempt shooting those missiles at Israel, we all know who will pay the price.
While Israel might be targeted and there will be severe damages, we all know that most of the population are sheltered, in each hose there are safe sheltered rooms with reinforced walls.
Can't say same about Lebanon.
Don't think you will find even one Lebanese dreaming of running with his family to look for safe place and the pictures on TV to return showing casualties.
Can't understand why people of Lebanon are dreaming to return once more to the pictures of ruins Ashes to Ashes. Dust to Dust.
Think for over 65 year there are dreamers of Israel's distraction, while the Arab world and specially the people of Lebanon paid the most severe price for those dreams while the territorial dispute with Israel is the smallest.
over 10 years
Funny how Iran never fired a missile at Israel. Even Saddam Hussein did with his scuds. that's why the US are befriending the Shia republic, because they bark(ed) a lot, but NEVER bit(e) Israel.
Now who's the traitor?
Iran and its pawns.
over 10 years
Prime. The best thing that happened for HA is israel. Without Israel, HA would not have excuses to bully the rest of the lebanese.
over 10 years
Jeez, what's wrong with me, I again mistook brother Roar for FT, akhhh. FT, sorry again, Roar, sorry again.
over 10 years
Good point FT, which is why I keep saying that everyone keeps dumping their wars on us Lebanese, on our soil, then they tell us, go fight the Zionist evil, then they talk of a resistance of some form and God knows what again. The point is dear FT, we Lebanese are made to be gullible, by accepting to take on a cause that is not really ours. I know one thing, the worst enemy of Israel is not Hezbollah, nor Iran, nor the Palestinians, the very worst enemy and nightmare of Israel is a strong Lebanese sate, with strong constitutional institutions, like a strong Lebanese Armed Forces fully capable to defend its lands enjoying full contiguity. Israel fears the educated, that's all.
over 10 years
True FT bro, but not 4 million, maybe a million at most. Most Lebanese simply want a strong Lebanon, ins't it why they are getting killed in the first place?
over 10 years
Yes filmflamthrower you are correct why would Iran fire missiles at Israel when it was it's Glorious militia in Lebanon to fire them instead.
over 10 years
Southern, as a Zionist can promise you that the first missile will fall on your head.
May be it was long time since your house return to ashes.
If a missile will touch the 1st Israeli you all know how will Lebanon look after completion of conflict
over 10 years
why should we care ya hezbollah if you get any weapon. Your weapons are at the service of Iran. Not Lebanon. Your policies are set by the pasdaran chief. not by the lebanese parliament. You can stuff your weapons where the sun doesnt shine.
over 10 years
The baath entity of assad is the prime ennemy.
over 10 years
Southern, my dear Southern, that state you keep accusing, it happens to be that same state that is trying to stand on its own two feet, the one that gemal Abdel Nasser refused such a right, then followed by Hafez Al Assad, then by Gaddafi, then by Yasser Arafat, Georges Habash, then by Bachar Al Assad, and now sadly by Hezbollah. Please my dear brother, some facts should not be dissimulated, not now, not ever. Thanks for understanding my feelings on this.
over 10 years
Perfectly said phoenix. The way many arguments go on this forum sound like this.
M14 supporter .... Iran never fired a missile on Israel they would rather have their HA tool do that as means to advance its other agendas.
M8 responder ...... As if KSA fires missiles at Israel, .... blah blah blah.
Would it not be more patriotic of both to just say: "We know they (and all others) are playing us as stooges, we Lebanese (All of us) must shun all of them and build our State and army.
over 10 years
israel is very happy to have such a country as lebanon as a neighbor... weak country, no army, economy falling, divided...
till hezbollah keeps the country that way then israel has nothing to fear... which makes hezbis accomplices with israelis....
over 10 years
"Hizbullah has dramatically improved its missile capabilities and can now pinpoint targets anywhere in Israel."
LOL hezbis already said that in 2006... but we are still waiting for the missiles on haifa wa ba3d haifa promised by iranman in 2006! LOL
over 10 years
@Peace - Did missiles not strike Haifa?
Rockets Hit Haifa in Northern Israel, Killing Eight
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/07/16/rockets-hit-haifa-in-northern-israel-killing-eight/
You must have the brain of a goldfish.
over 10 years
and those ba3d haifa? LOL still wiaiting for them... but normal you defend the "divine" iranman! wahaha!
over 10 years
sure and hypocrit M8ers don't talk about foreign interference here! iran defending their loyal dogs, but not the lebanese state. and FPM talks about "sovereignty"! what a farce these drones are! LOL
over 10 years
I totally agree with your assessment.
over 10 years
Army Chief: Hizbullah Could Choose to Strike Any Pinpoint Target in Israel - Gantz said that Hizbullah could pose a major threat.
"The accuracy of their missiles will increase dramatically, and if Hizbullah chooses to strike a pinpoint target, almost anywhere in Israel, it could do so," the military's website quoted him as saying.
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/101448
Yalla apologize for falsifying information so I can stop making you look stupid.
over 10 years
that is what dogs usually do: try and bark louder than the other, exactly what hezbis and israel are doing... and hezbi lovers are proud to bark too as a sign of loyalty to their iranian masters... LOL
over 10 years
waw! proud that only one missile landed there? sure hezbis won a "divine" victory, now i understand why! hahaha!
over 10 years
Filthy murdering militia
over 10 years
Phoenx1, it pains me to think that you are buying into the Israeli propaganda that Israel bombed Qana. Let me ask, did Israel bomb the helpless UN bases and kill UN personal also because HA was firing from there too? The Israelis were under heavy pressure by the American administration to continue their offensive on Lebanon. Even at the time condoles rice was saying HA needed more lesson while it was all taking place. The Israelis were taking a heavy toll in south Lebanon. They bombed Qana in order to create an out cry for world attention to help stop the war. The war was not going right for Israel and the Israelis wanted out sooner then everyone is led to believe. I would agree that Israel was not stupid enough to hit Qana twice, it was rather a calculated move to create a result. Its disgusting that innocent civilians had to pay, and painful to know that there are Lebanese that buy into Israeli propaganda about the events.
over 10 years
City and Southern, I read your posts both, and I also thank you dear brothers for responding. In fact about those reports, sadly for us all, there happens to be quite a few and each one contradicting the other. I have based my opinion purely based on technical facts, and the Israeli finding is definitely one that I'll take with a pinch of salt. The report I read is the one issued by the UN, that in itself damns both Israel and Hezbollah for being so reckless when it comes to their approach to that war and in respect of those two attacks. I owe you both an apology for not being the consensual person, I am aiming purely to remain as objective as I possibly could, trust me, in our days that is not a simple task. God bless you both.
over 10 years
No Phoenix, you don't owe us an apology, at least not me. You have your views, often I don't agree with them, especially on Syria. I was only offering my perspective as to why Israel hit Qana. I am sure you know Israel's official line when it hits civilians. They use the standard line that they were fired on from there. The same holds true in Gaza, west bank and in Lebanon. God bless to you as well.
over 10 years
Then why are you accusing M14 of trying to lengten the war, They were giving you time to defeat Israel once for good, LOL.
over 10 years
Correct, I will use Mr. Sarkozi's words on Israel's actions, Disproportionate Force. It is this exactly I fear they would use again, but this time a lot worse. I firmly believe that now is the time for us Lebanese to move to creating a real State, one with a powerful army, whereby everyone, HA included will contribute towards achieving. Only only way forward is the Lebanese State, enjoying strong institutions, and a truly functional democracy. I regret to see that we were all so close not so long ago. Again, thank you Tex, City and Southern, always an education to discuss with you brothers.
over 10 years
Iran is a worse enemy you clod
over 10 years
Is Israeli propaganda worse than the propaganda that is spread by those cancerous and filthy Iranians?
over 10 years
I think this speech is adressed to us the lebanese, The israelis know very well what are the Hizppos capabilities, no need to frighten them, but the iranians want to show that they are at israeli level,demonstrate that lebanon need them, play the old game by preparing to annihilate Israel, and keep governing us by lies , and Israel is happy by that as long as they are away.Please Hajjeh, if u are so strong why u don't attaque??????
over 10 years
If Sharon were in good health and alive he would have flattened Iran.That would solve the problem.
over 10 years
Are you gonna come and defend Lebanon when Israel attacks again? Or are you doing the Zionists' dirty deed to clean up Lebanon?
over 10 years
Really? How wonderful that Hezbollah has this new capacity thanks to Iran. And does Iran have its finger on the trigger or does the Lebanese Government? If Iran pulls the trigger and attacks anywhere in Israel, will Iran be the target of Israeli retaliation or Lebanon?
Iran has an ambassador in Lebanon, supposedly Iran recognizes the sovereignty of the Republic of Lebanon, yet, they violate the sovereignty daily and minute by minute by arming their advanced IRG Brigade located on Lebanese soil without the consent of the Lebanese Government. And issue press releases on their arrogance to boot!
over 10 years
Southern you Illiterate fool, Lebanon's enemy Is the Axis… your pals the Assad's how have been terrorizing the Lebanese for 40 years and the Iranian militia who have taken over the task of occupiers.
over 10 years
"Even the West had admitted HA saved Lebanon from the Takfiri invasion"… the_snore we all know you are the smartest, bravest, most patriotic and richest poster on line so this must be true!
over 10 years
"Iran Commander: Hizbullah's Missile Power Improved"… a proud moment for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Once again they remind everyone that any conflict with Israel will take place in Lebanon. Nasrallah go resist in Iran or what is left of Assad's Syria… Lebanon might not survive another one of your so called Devine victories.
over 10 years
Takfir=Hizbola=Nusra etc All the product of iran and el MO Mana3a
over 10 years
The Iranian are so brave people.
They are ready to fight Israel till the last drop of blood but of the Lebanese people.
We all know what we say in the holy Bible:
Ashes to Ashes Dust to Dust. this will remain of Lebanon after next conflict.
Time for Lebanese people to grow up and say enough is enough. Lebanon paid for yoear with the blood of its citizen for war of others.
At your service, General Hajizadeh.