Hezbollah PM and retired Brig. Gen. Walid Sakariya told Lebanese television this week that the nuclear weapon Iran is allegedly developing is intended to "create a balance of terror with Israel" and "finish off the Zionist enterprise."

A year ago Sakariya foreshadowed the regional implications of the civil war being fought in Syria, saying "If Syria, as a confrontation country, falls, then the American and Zionist enterprise will be victorious. But if Syria is victorious as a confrontation country, Israel will come to an end."

Here he is speaking to MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Institute) this week: