Hamas would win any conflict with Israel: Iran
AFP
Date: 03-29-06
TEHRAN (AFP) - The head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards warned that Hamas-led Palestinians would be victorious in any confrontation with Israel under premier-elect Ehud Olmert."Today we have on one side the revolutionary and Islamic Hamas and on the other the new party of Kadima," General Yahya Rahim Safavi said Wednesday in reaction to Olmert's election win Tuesday and the imminent investiture of the new Hamas administration.
"(If) they confront one another, with the Muslims' support for the revolutionary Palestinians, great victories will definitely be for the Palestinians," he told state television.
After Kadima emerged the narrow winner in Israel's election, Olmert claimed a mandate to fix the Jewish state's final borders and issuing an appeal to the Palestinians for peace.
Iran does not recognize the existence of Israel and hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last year triggered international outrage when he called for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map.
"Today the Iranians are hand-in-hand with the Lebanese, Syrians, Iraqis and Palestinians initiating a new trend that will free Palestine and will see the defeat of the Zionists and the US's greater Middle East plan," Savafi said.
The elite Revolutionary Guards corps is one of the most powerful institutions set up after the 1979 Islamic revolution to defend Iran from internal and external threats.
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