{"id":3285,"date":"2011-09-26T19:20:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T02:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3285"},"modified":"2011-09-26T19:20:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T02:20:30","slug":"ayatollah-jafar-shoujouni-warnings-against-western-adventurism-and-making-defensive-intentions-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3285","title":{"rendered":"Ayatollah Jafar Shoujouni, warnings against Western Adventurism and making defensive intentions clear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ayatollah: Hezbollah will respond to Iran attack<\/strong>
\nSeptember 27, 2011 02:27 AM – By Kristin Dailey – The Daily Star<\/p>\n

TEHRAN: Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah has said Hezbollah will destroy Tel Aviv if Israel attacks Iran, an Iranian ayatollah told The Daily Star.<\/p>\n

Ayatollah Jafar Shoujouni, a senior Shiite scholar and prominent member of Iran\u2019s Combatant Clergy Association, said Nasrallah made the remark during a two-and-a-half hour meeting with the Hezbollah leader in Lebanon about three months ago.<\/p>\n

During the meeting Nasrallah told him, \u201cI am a cadet of Ayatollah Khamenei\u2019s school,\u201d said Shojouni.<\/p>\n

Nasrallah also expressed gratitude toward the late Grand Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat, crediting the recently deceased Iranian religious leader\u2019s prayers for Hezbollah\u2019s victory in the 2006 war, adding that his resistance group would retaliate against any Israeli attack on Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Israelis come near Tehran, we will destroy Tel Aviv,\u201d Shojouni, who was Bahjat\u2019s only student for eight years, quoted Nasrallah as saying.<\/p>\n

Western and Israeli analysts have warned that an Israeli attack on Iran could draw Hezbollah retaliation, but officials in the resistance group have never acknowledged or denied this publicly.<\/p>\n

Shojouni said Nasrallah is a cause of honor, not just for Lebanon, but also for all Islamic and Arab countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause Israelis are afraid of him and his people, we must thank him, and Iranians are protecting him for this reason,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsrael is afraid of this sayyed, son of Zahra, and it shows because Israel has forgotten what was once its slogan, which is that they will have the lands from the Euphrates to the Nile River. It shows that they are so afraid of Hezbollah that they have forgotten about all of these things,\u201d Shojouni added.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the unrest in neighboring Syria, one of Iran\u2019s closest allies, the ayatollah said that the Assad family\u2019s control of the Syrian presidency for four decades was \u201cnot correct.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese sort of 40-year presidencies will lead to dictatorship, and it is so,\u201d he said, arguing that Syria should instead \u201cfollow the path and methods of Iran,\u201d by holding elections for a new president every four to five years.<\/p>\n

However, he warned that Israel and Western countries were seeking to exploit the turmoil in Syria to their own advantage.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn this point I say with certainty, Syria is not Libya. In Libya, oppression led to an awakening of the people, but in Syria, Israelis and Americans have made this problem in the name of the people \u2026 I think they wish to open the door of Syria with NATO force. Of course, Iran won\u2019t allow this to happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the Iranian overview, Syria is on the front line against Israelis, and even Hezbollah in this case is connected with us [geographically] through Syria,\u201d he said. \u201cWe agree with any kind of protests or internal reform aimed at improving the situation of the people. [But] our goal is that Zionists not use these protests as a way to inflict damage on Hezbollah and Syria\u2019s resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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