Ahmadinejad: Opposition Election Victory will Change Region
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the opposition victory in the Lebanese parliamentary elections will "change the status in the region."
"The opposition victory in the parliamentary elections will strengthen the resistance and change the status in the region," Ahmadinejad told reporters in Tehran.
Asked about threats posed by Israel against both Hizbullah and Iran, Ahmadinejad said: "The Zionist regime is a fake entity … which aims at threatening, occupying, and waging wars; because without them, it is dead."
"Such moves are part of a psychological war," the Iranian president thought, adding that Israel has "lost its entire value."
Meanwhile, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani reiterated Tehran”s support for Hizbullah and Hamas and refuted claims that Hizbullah is a terror group.
The U.S. "must know that Iran takes pride in its support for Hizbullah and Hamas," Larijani said before Revolutionary Guards maneuvers were set to start in Tehran on Monday.
"Hizbullah is not a terrorist organization, it defends dignity… Imad Mughniyeh was not a terrorist either. He defended the Palestinian people," he stressed.
Mughniyeh was top Hizbullah commander. He was assassinated in a car bombing in Damascus in February 2008.
Larijani said the U.S. cannot change Iran”s path.
"America should not imagine that it could change, with some threats, Iran”s path, because, in response to these statements, we strongly say that we support Hamas and Hizbullah," he said.