[lit-ideas] Meanwhile, in Iran....

_Iran  forces urged to prepare to hit Israel - Yahoo! News_ 
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TEHRAN (Reuters) -  
Iran's 
hardline forces should get ready to take revenge on  _Israel_ 
(http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Israel)  and the United States for 
the  
offensive on Lebanon, the head of the Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying 
 on 
Sunday. 
"The Basij and Revolutionary Guards should prepare to get even  with the 
Zionists and Americans," Yahya Rahim-Safavi was quoted as telling  Islamic 
militiamen by the conservative Fars news agency.
The Basij are volunteer Islamic militiamen. 
"The timing of the this will be announced by the leader," he added. 
An Israeli air strike killed 54 civilians, including 37 children in the  
southern Lebanese village of Qana on Sunday, the bloodiest single attack since  
Israel's 19-day-old war on Lebanese Hizbollah guerrillas began. 
Iran's Revolutionary Guards are historically close to Hizbollah and were  
deployed in south Lebanon during the 1980s. Mostafa Chamran, spiritual father 
of  
the Guards, forged his reputation fighting in Lebanon. 
The Basij and Revolutionary Guards are directly answerable to Supreme Leader  
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. 
Although Iran funded and armed Hizbollah in the 1980s, it has insisted  
recently its support is mainly moral and political. 
However, many sources have said Iranian arms are being used against Israeli  
civilian and military targets. 
An Israeli military source has said an Iranian-made C802 radar-guided  
land-to-sea missile with a range of 60 miles (95 km) hit and badly damaged a  
ship 
during Israel's offensive against Lebanon. 
Hizbollah said it fired "Raad (Thunder) 2" and "Raad 3" rockets at a rail  
depot in Haifa. Raad missiles are Iranian. 
Israel's army said it destroyed an Iranian-made Zelzal missile with range of  
between 74 and 99 miles before it was launched.

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