IRANIAN PRESIDENT MAHMUD AHMADINEJAD HAS CONGRATULATED, IN A TELEPHONE CONVERSATION, HIS LEBANESE COUNTERPART EMILE LAHUD ON THE OCCASION OF THE VICTORY OF THE LEBANESE PEOPLE AGAINST THE ISRAELI AGGRESSION. HE DESCRIBED THE LEBANESE RESISTANCE AS A MATTER OF PRIDE TO THE MUSLIM NATION. 'THROUGH UNIFYING THEIR RANKS, THE LEBANESE PEOPLE WILL ATTAIN VICTORY AGAINST THE ZIONIST ENTITY', HE SAID IN A STATEMENT CARRIED BY THE IRANIAN NEWS AGENCY "IRNA". PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD REITERATED IRAN'S READINESS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROCESS OF RECONSTRUCTION OF LEBANON, AND SAID 'THE ZIONISTS, WITH THE SUPPORT OF AMERICA, WERE PLANNING TO OCCUPY AND PARTITION LEBANON, BUT THE RESISTANCE OF THE LEBANESE PEOPLE AND THE SUPPORT EXTENDED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND PARLIAMENT TO THE RESISTANCE HAVE ABORTED THE PLOT AND PAVED THE WAY FOR THE DEFEAT OF THE ZIONIST ENTITY'. AHMADINEJAD UNDERLINED THE IMPORTANCE OF THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE ISRAELI TROOPS FROM LEBANON AND CALLED FOR COMPENSATION FOR THE LOSSES INFLICTED ON LEBANON. HE CALLED FOR BRINGING THE LEADERS OF THE ZIONIST ENTITY AND THEIR PROTECTORS NOTABLY THE LEADERS OF AMERICA AND BRITAIN TO JUSTICE AND TRYING THEM FOR THE CRIMES THEY HAVE COMMITTED. ON HIS PART, PRESIDENT LAHUD LAUDED THE SUPPORT OF IRAN TO LEBANON AND SAID THE STUBBORN RESISTANCE, UNITY AND SOLIDARITY OF THE LEBANESE FACTIONS WERE BEHIND THE VICTORY ATTAINED AGAINST THE ISRAELI AGGRESSION. 'IT IS AN ESSENTIAL MATTER FOR THE LEBANESE PEOPLE TO REMAIN VIGILANT BECAUSE THE LOSING ZIONIST ENTITY WILL TRY TO RETALIATE', HE ADDED.
