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Iran 'will arm Palestinians' after Israeli drone downed
2014-08-26
Tehran will “accelerate” arming Palestinians in retaliation for Israel deploying a spy drone over Iran, which was shot down, a military commander said on Monday.
By 'accelerate' they mean do more than they've been doing...
Iran, which does not recognise the existence of Israel, has confirmed it supplied Palestinian fighters from Hamas and the Islamic Jihad with the technology for the rockets being fired relentlessly into Israel from Gaza since July 8.

We will accelerate the arming of the West Bank and we reserve the right to give any response, said General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of aerial forces of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, in a statement on their official website sepahnews.com.

Last month, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the Islamic world to arm Palestinians to allow them to counter what he called Israel's “genocide” in Gaza. He also said Israel was acting like a rabid dog and a wild wolf, causing a human catastrophe that must be resisted.

Iran's warning on Monday came a day after the Revolutionary Guards said they had downed an Israeli Hermes stealth drone above the Natanz uranium enrichment site in the centre of the country. An Israeli spokesman said in Jerusalem on Sunday after the report that the drone had been shot down that the military does “not address foreign media reports”.
Posted by:Steve White

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