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Ahmadinejad: 'Hot' Summer for Middle East
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during a surprise visit to Syria that this will be a "hot” summer in the Middle East. "We hope that the hot weather of this summer will coincide with similar victories for the region’s peoples, and with consequent defeat for the region’s enemies,” he declared on Thursday after a meeting with Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah in Damascus. And he said at a joint press conference with Syrian President Bashar Assad: "The enemies of the region should abandon plans to attack the interests of this region, or they would be burned by the wrath of the region’s peoples,” according to the Jerusalem Post. As NewsMax’s Insider Report reported earlier, articles in the Lebanese daily Al-Mustabal have warned of a planned coup in Lebanon by Hezbollah forces backed by Syria and Iran.
Story Continues Below The articles stated that Hezbollah was continuing military preparations for the coup in a number of locations in Lebanon, and stockpiling weapons for a conflict with Israel. Ahmadinejad’s visit to Damascus proves that Israel should not proceed with peace talks with Syria, said Rafi Eitan, chairman of the GIL political party in Israel. "Assad is not showing any indication that he will cut his strong ties with Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah even after he starts peace talks with Israel,” he told Israel Radio.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has called on Syria to cut its relations with Iran before peace talks, deadlocked since 2000, can be restarted.
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