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Israel at War Watch: Iran – “This War is Our War”

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Iranian female protestor, holds a poster of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, during a pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli demonstration in front of the U.N office in Tehran, Iran , Wednesday, July 26, 2006.

Ottawa Citizen: ‘This war is our war’

A former CSIS informant who once kept tabs on terrorists says the Iranian regime is “mentally and spiritually” preparing its people for war against Israel.

The Ottawa man, now in Tehran, says the hate campaign against Israel is “everywhere” on the streets of the capital.

“It is not good. It is sad,” he told the Citizen.

“There are posters at intersections of (Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah) saying Israel must be erased from the map.”

Iran has already supplied Hezbollah with rockets and now Fajr-5 missiles (renamed Khaibar-1 for the Hezbollah assault on Afula). Other Iranian influences on the war include the use of a silkworm missile on an Israeli ship and the supply of other arms.

Opponents of the Iranian government in Canada say they have received similar reports describing huge posters of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Hezbollah leader alongside the slogan: “This war is our war.”

“I had some reports where people said that they do not care what the government of Iran wants to do,” said Shahram Golestaneh, president of Committee for Defence of Human Rights in Iran. “They are concerned about the possibility of more bloodshed in the Middle East and (concerned) that the government uses all Iran’s money to help fight against Israel by its own Hezbollah.”

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A portrait of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is seen at the southern border village of Aita Al-Shaab. Israel said it killed 26 Hezbollah fighters in clashes around a flashpoint border town in south Lebanon, as the air force hit a succession of targets in a new wave of deadly strikes.

Iran, which backs Hezbollah, has repeatedly denied Israeli claims that it also arms the organization established in the 1980s to combat Israeli forces.

“Our support has been spiritual. If we had military support, we would announce it. … We don’t have any hidden business,” ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said on state-run television yesterday, a day after U.S. President George W. Bush sharply criticized Iran’s role in the bloody fighting.

“They don’t have any right to tell us why Iran supports Hezbollah at all. The question is, why do they support Israel?” Mr. Asefi said.

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Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi has said that the Iranian regime supports Hezbollah ‘spiritually,’ if not militarily.

Earlier this week, about 60 Iranian volunteers left the country with the hopes of joining Hezbollah in the war against Israel. They called it a holy war, were unarmed and hoped to gain entry to Lebanon from Syria.

According to Mr. Golestaneh, some Iranian dissidents were pleased to see the militants, ranging in age from teens to grandfathers, leave the country.

“In one instance,” according to the human rights worker “one person said ‘In fact I rather they send all their loyalists to the war so we can breathe more easily.’ ”

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Iranian volunteer militiamen, join hands as they pray, in a meeting at the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery, just outside Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, July 26, 2006. Surrounded by yellow Hezbollah flags, more than 60 volunteer militiamen set off Wednesday to try to join the fight against Israeli forces in Lebanon in what organizers called the first convoy of ‘Islamic warriors’ offering their help from Iran. Iran says it will not send regular forces to aid Hezbollah, but apparently will not attempt to stop volunteer guerrillas.

Iran is involved but do they have the “CAJONES” to overtly aid Hezbollah and a formal declaration of war against Israel. Or will Iran’s Mullahs continue to hide behind their terrorist lackeys, Hezbollah?

Probably the latter…

NO GUTS and NO GLORY……..

Stay tuned…..

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29 Comments

  • janb

    ISRAEL IS PROTECTING ITSELF

    THE MEDIA IN AMERICA MAKE LIKE THE IDF IS INVINCEABLE – TO THE POINT WHERE HIZBOLLAH LOOK LIKE “FREEDOM FIGHTERS”

    THATS THE PROBLEM

    THE REAL “RESISTANCE” IS AGAINST TERROR – AND DARKNESS

    THIS IS THE HIZB’ALLAH THE WORLD MUST SEE – THE REAL HEZBOLLAH

    http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=HEZBOLLAH%20SALUTE&fr=FP-tab-web-t400&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8&fr2=tab-web

    AND THE POINT THAT HIZBALLAH DOENT NEED TO WORRY ABOUT CIVILIANS IS A REAL PROBLEM TOO – LIKE ITS OK FOR THEM TO KILL AS MANY AS THEY WANT – BUT ISAREL MUST BE RESTRAINED

  • Aryeh Levin

    Israel never in history drew its sword against Iran. Nor will it now, unless attacked. Hizbollah’s war is not Iran’s war. It is the war of fanatic Shi’a leaders in Lebanon, proxies of Ahmadinejad, who wishes to unite the Muslim world under Irana’s banner. In so doing Iranian fanatics plan to overrun the territory of Islamic states and subjugate sovereign countries, and force-march into the middle ages, into poverty, ignorance and perpetual war and bloodletting. All this will bring back the Mahdi? It will only plunge the Muslims into a merciless theocracy that will add millions of victims to the 150,000 innocent victims of the Iranian revolution and the million victims of the Iran-Iraq war, which would not have taken place, had the “Learned Jurists’ stayed where they belong, in Qom.

  • Robert Naiman

    Every criticism of the Israeli government’s actions in Lebanon should acknowledge the role of the Bush Administration, which has given the green light, blocked efforts for a cease-fire, and provided the weapons. And the British government, which has supported the U.S. and is allowing U.S. shipments of weapons to Israel to pass through Scotland.

    Robert Naiman
    Just Foreign Policy
    http://www.justforeignpolicy.org

  • mik

    This war is NOT Iran war ! Iran is the ’cause to the war, Iran tried to take the world eyes from her yo another place, and Iran ordered the Hizbulla to open the war ! Damm Iran ! We – the people in the bombed aries are the victim of Iran and her leadership.

  • Ahuva Gretz

    What have Israel done to Iran that it hates us so much?
    Iran is a very large country with 70 million people what do you want from little country like Israel?

    What has Iran do to help in a POSISTIVE way to the Palestinians?
    All Iran can see is agression hatered and war. Using the worst of human characteristics.
    Their leader is doing a brain wash to his people, like in the times of Hitler. And they obey him blindlessly.

    History will judge him.

  • JOSE

    Iran can start war with Israel using hisbulla as proxy,but ultimately Iran can expect only unexpected things.
    Things wont go as they expected, winning war is a different game.Iraninan uncivilised population and its government is going to pay for this criminal acts.
    see the morings in Labonon, oneday it is theirs to claim in short time, then dont cry to international community instaed be brave and hold the same poster and be inspired in spirit.

  • gadiam@inter.net.il

    In the past 20 years iran and syria supports terrorist organizaions as Hamas and Hizbolah that all of their purpose is killing innocent civilians.
    read this article where a Hezbollah terrorists admit hiding among civillians, threatening elected politiciand and becoming a state within a state.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329541097-111416,00.html

    This is not only Israels war it’s the whole western worlds war. Iran is funding this war because it’s another stage in Iran’s war against our way of life.
    These are fundamental muslems believeing that death is holy, it’s a regime of hate.

  • Peter

    Israel and USA are the creators of all terrorism from the Middle East. Hamas and Hezbollah was created to resist the Israeli ockupation. The Iranian Islamic Revolution was a reaction to USA and Shaen opression.

    Today Israel and USA are fighting against Palestina, Libanon and Iran, the only some what democratic muslim countries in the region and they support the dictatorships in Egypt, Jordan and Saud Arabia.

    Israel and USA are the real terrorists, the real Axis-of-Evil in the region, there policies creates death and destruction and korruption. USA must leave the Middle East and let the people handle it’s own affairs in their own way.

  • Juval

    Israel is protecting itself against martyrs who think that death is holy!
    The fact that Iran says that this is also it’s war just points out that they’re aiding Hezbollah terrorism willingly against the Jews.
    Go Israel! Destroy Hezbollah before it’s too late!

  • Richard

    If you share the values of the fascist fanatics that rule Iran and Hezbollah then you should join them. Else you will have to fight them no matter how peace loving you may be.

  • Debbie

    Hezbollah, Iran’s government and all the other fanatic Moslem organizations are death worshiper terrorists (ignorant blood thirsty sub-creatures) whose only purpose in life is to kill civilians in cold blood. Look what Moslem factions are doing to each other in Iraq! No mercy, no value for life…they see glory, only, in killing and dying. They do not want peace…they do not know what peace is! They all need to be taken care of, once and for all.
    And, Mr. Robert Naiman, please educate yourself a bit more about the history of terrorist organizations before commenting on US foreign policy.

    Regards,
    Debbie

  • Dave

    Kill all arabs. Muhammed was a con-artist and a lier and a thief and should have been killed before he spread his hate crimes. Islam is a lie.

  • Fred

    The world will never be a safe, peaceful and stable place as long as rouge countries like Iran and Syria support terrorist organizations and their message of hate. The UN is a double edged sword. Because it exists Iran and Syria can no longer overtly attack Israel (Israel is also more than capable of fighting an overt war) so they resort to back-handed measures using pawns (Palestinians and Lebanese – in the form of Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, etc.) to carry out their dirty deeds. These enemies are harder to fight and put Israel in the rotten position of having to bomb the civilian neighbourhoods that these cowards hide in. The collateral damage – the death of possibly peaceful civilians in these areas – are tragic and make Israel look like the bully. It will take the will of the rest of the world to support Israel in its attempts to rid the world of this garbage. Let’s hope the world is wise enough and not swayed by the leftist media.

  • jo

    Nothing new, it’s only publicized more then in the past.
    Iran is governed by a terrorist and so it talks like a terrorist.
    In the end, iran’s actions will determin Iran’s fate.
    I think it wants israel to attack it so it will have a reason to get nuclear weapon, Iran trys to manipulate the world and doesn’t mind destroying Lebanon in doing so.

  • Ido Dubrawsky

    This just goes to show the rest of the world that Israel is, and has always been, the canary in the coal mine. What is happening first to Israel will be visited by these fanatics upon the rest of the world if we don’t stand with Israel and support her. How long will it be before the rest of the world realizes that Iran has expressely made their intent known…not just the destruction of the state of Israel but also the destruction of the Jewish people. Ahmadinejad is a liar, a murderer, and a terrorist himself. Nasrallah and his Hezbollah henchmen are murderers and cowards…hiding behind civilians and then blaming Israel for their deaths. The West must prepare for the Iranian gambit because it is coming.

  • Marty

    When will Hezbollah stop hiding behind children?

    Never! They are terrorizing the Lebanese civilians, and force them to act as their shields.

    Nasrallah the coward, and his fellow goons, will happily sacrifice tens of thousands for their Jihad against the West.

  • Leiif

    In case you don’t all know about this. The Isreali’s have created a tool

    that they are using to alert all their supporters to articles, polls,

    surveys and other sites of interest that they feel need to have the

    opinion adjusted more to their favor . Go to http://giyus.org/ and

    download their tool “megaphone” so you will be alerted to the same sites

    in order to counter their countering efforts . 2 days ago they had a page

    on the link where it says “make a “difference”” that showed a snapshot of

    a yahoo survey before and after they sent out their alert . It showed a

    totally skewed survey, of course . They pulled that page . The following

    link shows what they are working on this morning http://giyus.org/alerts/

    . Sometimes you must use the oppositions tools . They are clever and

    organized, that I will give them . Many of the pro-israeli remarks are by

    their minions.

  • Sarah Vey

    I heard that Hezbolla is shooting people who try to leave targetted places. I can easily believe it – civilian life is cheap to these murderers and their own deaths are precious to them, except they themselves don’t seem in too much of a hurry to meet Allah – but I would appreciate any RELIABLE sources for this.

  • mother

    you have to be sheme you think zionizm us wrong but it is bet thing in our life we love isreal we fight for peas life for our childs life but our enemis dont wont to ecsept us they heit us end dont wont to finish wor

  • israeli

    The Truth about QANA today, PLEASE READ:

    first. watch this IAF movie which proves that Hizbullah shoot from Qana.
    www1.idf.il

    more movies:
    http://www.4law.co.il

    Hizbullah lies all the time.

    some facts:
    IDF bombed the home at 1:00 AM.

    The first reports about casualties arrived at 8:00 AM, the first pictures at 8:30 AM.

    THE TRUTH:
    How about 7 hours passed withput report about casualties ?

    the House was attacked at 1:00 AM, how at 8:30 AM people are running away from that house ? does it take them 7 hours to get out of the burning house ?!

    One injured man from Qana said in the media that the house bombed at 1:00 AM, this is also proves the Hizbullah put weapons in the houses in Qana, and actually the civilians injured because of the weapons that Bombed later at this house or another house next to it (in the pictures you can see 2 houses destroyed). the IDF bomb probabaly caused damage to the house, and later the fire bombed the Hizbullah weapons, and the building collapsed.

    Moreover, in this operation died more than 10 Hizabullah people, is was reported in the media. This proves the Hizbullah involvement.

    IAF COMMENT:
    One of the heads of IAF Amir Eshel: “The building bombed at 00:00 to 1:00 AM.”

    “another targets away from the building were bombed at 2:00 AM and 7:30 AM, and destroyed successfully.”

    “The building collapsed only at the morning, we can’t understand what happened in the 7 hours between.”

    MY comment:

    There was more than 5 hours to the ambulances to arrive !!! and how can you explain that the civilians escaped from the house injured only at 8:30 AM ???

  • Dr. Why

    It is very simple the house of Islam (Muslim countries) is against the house of War (non-Muslim countries) forever.

    Islam teaches:

    Qur’an:8:39 “So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief [non-Muslims]) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole world).”

    Qur’an:9:5 “Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war (includes lying, murder, suicide bombers, beheading, rape, stealing, killing civilians, etc.).”

    Islam also teaches that all peaceful verses in the Qur’an have been abrogated (nullified, made void) by verse 9:5.

    Why is so hard for the West to understand this primary Islamic concept?

  • Romi

    I am the universal mother-
    all I want is to keep my children safe.
    I am the israeli mother-
    spreading my wing over my children’s heads
    aginst flying bombs and burning hatred.
    I am asking you-
    you mothers of the world:
    would you act differently
    had your home been under fire?

    Romi, Tel Aviv

  • Tim

    *IMPORTANT* In case you don’t all know about this. The Isreali Zionist neocons have created a tool that they are using to alert all their supporters to articles, polls, surveys and other sites of interest that they feel need to have the opinion adjusted more to their favor. Download their tool “megaphone” so you will be alerted to the same sites in order to counter their deceitfully misleading efforts . 2 days ago they had a page on the link where it says “make a “difference”” that showed a snapshot of a yahoo survey before and after they sent out their alert, it showed how they totally skewed the survey results in their favor. The following link “http://ws.giyus.org/points/list” shows what they are working on this morning. Stand up to this attempt to mislead public opinion and drown this misleading voice under the voice of true public opinion like it deserves. This is a clear example of the **WAR waged by Israel upon EVERY one of US**, we are as a global society being fired upon by the Israeli cyber-guerrillas.

  • Flap

    Tim,

    I am an independent blogger who pays for his own bandwidth. If some sites wish to link to what I have written, so be it. And if they wish to comment and obey the comments policy then they may – just as you have.

    But, to imply that I am or this blog is in some grand conspiracy is a mis-informed opinion.

    Flap

  • ab delgawad

    dear sir
    i am from egypt i think isreal is outlaw country , it has a bad history we have to remove it , but we have a reason for that , jewish people used media to discover thier mistakes for humaninty through that i hope isreal has one day to stop thier lives and comeback as migrators please god (allah )gave isreal an earth quak or volcano
    or curse from GOD