Speaker Stresses Iran's Support for Hamas, Hezbollah
News number: 880913060315:55 | 2009-12-04Foriegn Policy
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said on Thursday that
Iran supports Hamas and Hezbollah because they defend their land.

Addressing a seminar in commemoration of local martyrs in Iran's northern
province of Golestan, Larijani said some countries criticize Iran for
supporting Hezbollah and Hamas, because they consider the two as
"terrorists".

He said the Islamic Republic of Iran does not at all conceal supporting
Hamas and Hezbollah, and added, "We say clearly that we support Hamas and
Hezbollah."

Elsewhere, the Iranian parliament speaker said that the US which has had
enormous economic wealth and military might, brought fiasco in Iraq, the
Islamic republic news agency reported.

"Americans' failure in Iraq has been so appalling that all countries confess
to their humiliating defeat internationally," he noted.