Hezbollah says it has doubled its arsenal of guided missiles

The chief of Lebanon’s Hezbollah mentioned Sunday his group now has twice as many precision-guided missiles because it had a yr in the past, saying Israel’s efforts to stop it from buying them have failed.Hassan Nasrallah, in an end-of-year interview with the Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV, mentioned his group has the aptitude to strike anyplace in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.Nasrallah mentioned that when Israel threatened by means of a US official to focus on a Hezbollah facility in Lebanon’s jap Bekaa area, his group warned it will retaliate for any such assault.Israel has in current months expressed concern that Hezbollah is making an attempt to ascertain manufacturing services to make precision-guided missiles.During the four-hour interview, Nasrallah mentioned there are a lot of issues associated to his group that Israel has no information of as a result of these are stored in a “very tight circle.”Nasrallah additionally mentioned that the previous couple of weeks of the administration of US President Donald Trump are crucial and should be handled with care. He referred to as Trump “angry” and “crazy.”The Iran backed Hezbollah is a sworn enemy of Israel, with which it has had a sequence of confrontations, together with a full-scale struggle in 2006.Nasrallah repeated vows that Iran and its allies will avenge the US killing of the commander of the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Qassim Soleimani, in a drone assault a yr in the past in Iraq.“That revenge is coming no matter how long it takes,” he advised Al-Mayadeen TV, sitting with an image of Soleimani to his left.Nasrallah additionally vowed to avenge Israel’s killing of a Hezbollah fighter in Syria earlier this yr.Addressing the incoming US administration of President Joe Biden, Nasrallah mentioned Iran wouldn’t negotiate with the US on behalf of its allies or talk about conflicts within the area. He mentioned Tehran would discuss with Washington solely concerning the Iranian nuclear deal, from which Trump withdrew.