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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told thousands of supporters Thursday at a rally along the Lebanon border that Israel would disappear, while they would thrive.
Speaking in the border town of Bint Jbeil to a crowd brandishing Iranian flags and cheering, Ahmadinejad praised Hezbollah and its southern stronghold as "the foremost shield of Lebanon." Bint Jbeil was the location of fierce fighting between the Israel Defense Forces and the Iranian-backed Shi'ite group Hezbollah during the Second Lebanon War of 2006, and the location of a victory speech by Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah after Israel ended two decades of occupation of south Lebanon.