DIGEST

Iran Threatens Israel
Jerusalern/JTA — A senior
Iranian cleric said his country
would fire missiles at Tel Aviv if
attacked.
"If they militarily attack Iran,
they should be afraid of the day
when our missiles with 2,000-km.
range will hit Tel Aviv," Ahmad
Khatami told state television.
Khatami is a member of the
Assembly of Experts, a clerical
body that supervises Iran's supreme
leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Khatami described the cease-fire
that ended the war in Lebanon this
week as a triumph for Hezbollah,
which Iran sponsors.
"I congratulate Hezbollah for
its victory, which was the victory
of Islam. This was a disgraceful
defeat for America and the Zionist
regime" he said.

War 'Ended U.S. Vision'
Jerusalem/JTA — The outcome of
Israel's war on Hezbollah sounded
the death-knell for U.S. visions of
reforming the Middle East, Syria's
president said.
"The Middle East they aspire to
has become an illusion','Bashar
Assad said Tuesday in a speech that
described Hezbollah as the main
victor of the month-long war in
Lebanon.
"The result was more failure for
Israel, its allies and masters',' he
said. Assad accused Israel of not
wanting peace, and hinted that his
country could resort to military
action to secure the return of the.
Golan Heights.
"When we say that we have
chosen peace as our strategy, it
does not mean we gave up other
options," he said.

Writer Part Of SS

Berlin/JTA — German Nobel Prize
winner Gunther Grass admitted he
was a member of the Waffen SS at
the end of World War II.
Grass told the Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper he
never actually saw military action,
but ended up behind the Russian
front on reconnaissance patrols,
witnessing what he described as
gruesome scenes and surviving by
pure chance.
The new autobiography by Grass,
who wrote the novel The Tin
Drum, is due out this fall.

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