Hezbollah will soon destroy Israel, says Iran Guards

Tehran: The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Monday that Israel would soon be destroyed by the "hands of Hezbollah", the Fars News Agency reported.

"In the near future, we will witness the destruction of the cancerous existence of Israel by the powerful and competent hands of the Hezbollah combatants," said Mohammad Ali Jafari, head of the Revolutionary Guards said in a letter to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Nasrallah last week vowed to seek revenge for the death of a senior Hezbolllah official in a bombing in Beirut, which Hezbollah blamed on Israel. Israel denied involvement in the incident.