Former Iranian president and Substitute Friday Prayers Leader of Tehran Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Friday that the enemies of Islam, the revolution, and Iran had imagined that Lebanon was a passage through which they could reach Iran.
Addressing thousands of worshipers at central campus of Tehran University, Rafsanjani added, "God brought them to their knees there so that hey would not succeed in inflicting losses against the land that is the standard bearer of Islam and the Prophet's Holy Household (PBUT)."
Considering the United States as the "main supporter of Israel" and the "biggest defamed party" in the war, he stressed, "The United States acted most arrogantly in this war and has to be accountable now, since it was at least an accomplice of Israel in its attack against Lebanon, and among the main planner of that inhumane massive military attack."
Rafsanjani reiterated, "The Americans had assumed that Hizbullah would be taken care of in the course of a couple of days and that was why they gave Tel Aviv a green light for launching its massive attack, and resisted many times against the issuance of a truce UN resolution, but when they noticed Israel's weakness in achieving its objectives, they passed a unilateral resolution." Referring to the high amount of losses that Israel has suffered in the war, he reiterated, "They had propagated that their Mercava tanks are invulnerable, but Hizbullah encountered the Israeli tanks from the very beginning of the war and managed to halt their process using the missiles they had."
Arguing that Israeli land forces are not strong at all, he said, "The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) is mainly comprised of reserve personnel, that are summoned to service merely at times of war, and are made up of soldiers form different nationalities that war in Israel as mercenaries and are not pleased with the conduct of the Zionist regime at all."
The Friday preacher of Tehran said, "Most of their military personnel are devoid of the strong belief and sense of selflessness, that are parts and parcel for any good military personnel at a warfront, relying merely on the airforce, and armed vehicles' power, but Hizbullah, resorting to its simple missiles, annulled the real penetration power of even their air force."
