 The President of the Iranian Shura Council, Gholam Ali Haddad Adel, reiterated his country's support for Lebanon, and the Islamic resistance group Hizbullah, urging unity to confront American and Israeli ambitions in the country.
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Adel visited the graves of more than 100 people killed by Israeli artillery shells as he concluded Saturday a trip to express Iranian support for Lebanon and Hizbullah. Accompanied by Iranian Ambassador Masoud Idrisi and MPs Hassan Hubballah, Ali Bazzi, Abdel-Majid Saleh and Ali Khreis, Adel visited the village of Qana, 11 kilometers north of the Israeli border, where over a hundred Lebanese men, women and children were killed by Israeli shelling while taking refuge in a UN base during the "Grapes of Wrath" offensive in 1996. A United Nations report found that the shelling was "unlikely" to have been an accident, as Israel claimed. Addressing a crowd of Hizbullah supporters in Qana, Adel told them in Arabic: "We are here to express our support to Qana, its martyrs and citizens; you are not alone because the Iranian nation with its 70 million people is with you."
He also urged unity against what he called "the ambitions of America and Israel." Amid a heavy security presence, Adel headed to the village of Khiam, where he was welcomed by hundreds of people throwing roses and rice. Hizbullah's senior commander in the South Sheikh Nabil Qaouk said Adel's visit sent a message to the United States. "We tell the United States that despite all regional developments and U.S. interference in Lebanon, Iran will always back the resistance and its right to liberate the remaining Occupied Territories and free the detainees," Qaouk said. |