August 1939 Alert: “Iran cleric calls on Muslims to arm Hizbollah,” from Reuters, with thanks to Twostellas:
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Muslim nations should arm Hizbollah in its fight against Israel, Iran’s influential hardline clerical politician Ahmad Jannati said on Tuesday….
Israel accuses Iran of providing Hizbollah with missiles used against civilian and military targets.
“We are expecting Muslim nations to provide various kinds of support, including arms, medicine and food to Hizbollah,” he told the students news agency ISNA.
Jannati heads the Guardian Council, Iran’s constitutional watchdog composed of six clerics and six hardline lawyers.