| See 'Israel Hints at New Strikes' story below; that warning was in response to this threat by Nasty and the Iranians. |
"All Arabs and Muslims" are requested to join the fight against Israel, Tehran said, according to Israel Radio.
The report comes a week after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed to respond to Jerusalem's ostensible aggression against Syria with the help of Syria's advanced "game-changing" weapons. The next stage, he warned during a speech, would be opening up a front on the Golan Heights.
The Palestinian newspaper al-Quds also reported Wednesday that Tehran had persuaded Damascus "to open the door to jihad" in the Golan Heights in an effort enable Arab and Muslim fighters to unite and confront Israel, so that they're "ready" if Israel strikes Syria again.
The al-Quds website wrote that Iran also discussed the issue with other Arab leaders, namely Jordan's King Abdullah, who expressed his own "concerns" about the surge of radical Islamist groups, such as the Jabhat al-Nusra, in Syria.
The Lebanese daily al-Akhbar suggested last week that Iran had "reached a final decision" to respond to Israel's reported strike on Syria by "turning the Golan into a new Fatah-land. The front has become open to Syrians and Palestinians and anyone who wants to fight Israel."
A message to that effect was conveyed to Assad by Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on behalf of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, reported al-Akhbar.
Arabic media reports also suggested Syria had allowed Palestinians living there to attack Israel from the Golan Heights. However, Fatah spokesman Amad Assaf dismissed the claim by saying that Palestinians don't take their orders from the Syrian president, according to al-Quds al-Arabi, another London-based paper.
Earlier this week, the Syrian government announced that it reserves the right to invade the Israeli-held Golan Heights at any time, and accused Jerusalem of violating the terms of the 1974 ceasefire that ended the Yom Kippur War.