DHAKA: A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander said Saturday that Hezbollah in Lebanon has upgraded its capabilities in recent years and is now able to carry out pinpoint missile strikes on targets throughout Israel.

Speaking in an interview with Iran’s Fars News Agency, Commander of the IRGC’s Aerospace Force, Brig-Gen Amir Ali Hajizadeh said, ‘Based on our information, Hezbollah’s power has so much increased in recent years that they can attack any target in any part of the occupied territories with a high precision capability and with a very low margin of error’, reports The Jerusalem Post.

Hajizadeh added that Hezbollah ‘has always shown that its actions in the battlefield are unexpected and it showed this capability well during the 33-day war (against Israel in summer 2006) and it can make similar moves on any scene today’.

The IRGC’s website quoted Hajizadeh as saying that Hassan al-Laqqis, the Hezbollah military commander assassinated in Beirut last month, played a major role in increasing the organizations strike capabilities.

Israel has flatly denied Hezbollah claims that it was behind the assassination of Laqqis.

BDST: 1845 HRS, JAN 11, 2014
Edited by Robab Rosan, Current Affairs Editor