TEHRAN - Kamal Kharrazi, head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, has said that supporting the axis of resistance (Hezbollah, Palestine, and Syria) is Iran’s “honor”.

“We are proud of supporting the resistance and its forces in the region [the Middle East region] especially the Hezbollah,” he told Mehr news agency in an interview published on Saturday.

On the anniversary of Hezbollah’s victory over Israel in the 2006 war, he said that a Shiite Lebanese group defeated Israel through resistance.

Kharrazi who was foreign minister from 1997 to 2005 called “resistance” a key to victory.

The 2006 Lebanon War, also called the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War, was a 34-day military conflict between Hezbollah and the Israel Defense Forces in Lebanon, Northern Israel and the Golan Heights.

The Hezbollah victory shattered the myth of the invincibility of the Israeli army. It caused a political earthquake in Israel. Israel lost more than 100 soldiers in the war.

A five-member Winograd Committee, appointed to examine Israel's performance in the 2006 war, concluded in January 2008 that the war “was a big and serious failure” for Israel.

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