Hizbollah and Iran make new terrorist threats!

Dear Gold & Energy Subscriber,

Yesterday, the news stream from the middle-east seemed to be stressing some willingness by the hostile parties involved in Lebanon to contain the conflict. UN emissaries had arrived in the region and chorus call of world leaders were calling for a cease fire.

Today, it seems like Hizbollah and Iran are threatening a much wider conflict by issuing a new disturbing round of threats.

If you read the news articles below just hitting the news stream, it is pretty obvious that our terrorist enemies are threatening us with more TERRORISM!

This latest round rhetoric and tough talk from Hezbollah and Iran may be directly tied to the fact that 40% to 60% of its Lebanese infrastructure has been wiped by the relentless pounding unleashed by Israel.

These new threats may instead be a signal that Iran and Hezbollah are looking to actually set off a full scale war with the United States and Israel. The fact is we can't rule anything out with regard to these radical Islamist's. They have proven time and time again not to be rational.

Israeli Prime Minister Olmert said today the current military action could be over in a few weeks. Of course that's if Iran and Hizbollah don't do anything stupid.

Gold is off its recent highs and so is oil on the hope that this conflict won't stream roll out of control. If Iran and Hizbollah use terrorism to widen this war oil, gold and precious metals will leap.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-07-18T180844Z_01_OLI848020_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-IRAN-HIZBOLLAH.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

Iran's Hizbollah says ready to attack US, Israel

Tue Jul 18, 2006 2:09pm ET

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Hizbollah, which claims links to the Lebanese group of the same name, said on Tuesday it stood ready to attack Israeli and U.S. interests worldwide.

"We have 2,000 volunteers who have registered since last year," said Iranian Hizbollah's spokesman Mojtaba Bigdeli, speaking by telephone from the central seminary city of Qom.

"They have been trained and they can become fully armed. We are ready to dispatch them to every corner of the world to jeopardise Israel and America's interests. We are only waiting for the Supreme Leader's green light to take action. If America wants to ignite World War Three ... we welcome it," he said.

Iranian religious organisations have made great public show of recruiting volunteers for "martyrdom-seeking operations" in recent years, usually threatening U.S. interests in case of any attack against the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme.

But there is no record of an Iranian volunteer from these recruitment campaigns taking part in an attack.

Iran's Hizbollah (Party of God) says it is spiritually bound to Shi'ite Muslim guerrillas in Lebanon but its command structure and funding are unclear.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060717-105737-9603r.htm

Israel capable of air strike on Iran

By Rowan Scarborough
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
July 18, 2006

Israel is in the best position militarily in its history to mount air strikes against Iran, after a decade of buying U.S.-produced long-range aircraft, penetrating bombs and aerial refueling tankers.

 Tel Aviv has ratcheted up the volume in attacking the hard-line Islamic regime as it fights the Iranian-backed Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. In the past, Israeli politicians have talked openly of attacking Iranian nuclear sites to prevent the U.S.-designated terror state from building atomic warheads.