Moghnieh hit accelerates certain death of "Israel" - Khamenei adviser

Source: Agencies, 22-02-2008
The assassination of a top commander of Hizbullah has hastened the "certain death" of "Israel", the top military adviser to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Thursday.
General Yahya Rahim Safavi, in the latest of a spate of verbal attacks by Iran, said the murder of Imad Moghnieh in a Damascus car bombing last week had enraged thousands of young members of Hizbullah.
"With this anger, the certain death of the Zionist regime had been brought forward," he said, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.
Iran has stepped up its rhetoric against "Israel" since the Moghnieh hit, which it blamed on the Jewish (Zionist) state. "Israel" has denied any involvement but expressed support for whoever killed Moghnieh.
Safavi, who was for a decade top commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, again accused "Israel" of carrying out the attack that killed Moghnieh but also said that "security terrorists" from the United States and "one Arab nation" had cooperated. He did not name the Arab country.