Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah accused Israel Wednesday of attempting to spark a Lebanese civil war by sending spies into its territory.
In a televised interview the Hizbullah chief said, "Iran is the only nation that celebrates the global Jerusalem Day. Iran is the first to have opened a Palestinian embassy on its land. It is proud of assisting the resistance in Lebanon and Palestine while others are afraid."
He added, "Iran supports the opposition forces in the area unconditionally. No one should be ashamed to say: Yes, we are in contact with Tehran."
Nasrallah said Iran's was "the only voice standing against the Zionist project", and that the Islamic Republic had helped his organization to battle its enemies "without conditions or dictates".
"Iran's leadership works according to guidelines dictated by ethics and religion," he added.
Moving on to the US, Nasrallah said President Barack Obama's administration was working to "create a war between Iran and the Arabs and between Sunnis and Shiites".
"Our current task is to deal with plans for civil war, from which nobody stands to gain but the Zionist enemy. I call on this nation to pass this test, as it did in 2000 and 2006," he said.
In addition, Lebanese daily A-Safir reported that one of the senior officers accused of spying for Israel had been ordered to get close to Hizbullah's leaders and to attempt to contact Nasrallah.
The report says the former officer, Ziad al-Homsi, admitted that he had been ordered to contact Hizbullah's leadership during the conflict in Lebanon last May. He had reportedly sent a letter to this effect to Nasrallah.