Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed America's peace mediation in the ongoing Lebanon conflict because of Washington's support for Israel, his official Web site said on Sunday. «The United States, which has been supporting the Zionist regime until today, has no right to enter the crisis as a mediator,» Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying in a phone conversation with Syrian President Bashar Assad late Saturday. «They (the U.S.) think that through the U.N and the Security Council they can achieve the goals which they could not achieve militarily.» According to the report carried by the Associated Press, Assad said that the presence of international forces with extensive power in Lebanon would cause anarchy in the country. The phone conversation came as the U.S. and France were circulating a draft Security Council resolution that calls for an end to the fighting and for an international force to maintain peace in south Lebanon. Also Sunday, Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's powerful Supreme National Security Council, told reporters that «Iran would support the Lebanese resistance 100 percent» but denied the Islamic Republic was providing military assistance to Hezbollah. «We are ready to provide any support which could end the war. Either economic or political,» said Larijani.
