BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 26. Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said Monday that any attack on the group's backer Tehran would also target the militants, and warned that any new war on Iran would ignite the region TurkicWorld reports via aawsat.
"Faced with aggression that does not distinguish between us... we are targeted by any potential aggression and determined to defend ourselves," he said in a televised address to supporters at a solidarity rally for Iran, AFP reported.
"We will choose at that time how to act... but we are not neutral," he said, warning that "a war on Iran this time will ignite the region".