IRAN FOUGHT ISRAEL IN LAST LEBANON WAR

Congressional Hearing Shows Israel at Crux of Missile Defense Plan - Ron Kampeas (JTA)
The threat posed to Israel from Iran and the damage to Israeli deterrence from last summer's Lebanon war play a critical role in new U.S. plans for missile defense, a congressional hearing revealed. The May 3 session also dropped a bombshell: A senior congressman, Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), claimed that an Iranian crew was behind the missile attack on an Israeli Navy ship off Lebanon's coast last summer that killed four Israeli seamen. "We also know that as positions were overrun [by Israeli troops], Iranian IDs were found on many of the combatants," Royce said.