Report: Hizbullah Has More Firepower than 90% of Countries in the World

Iran would use Hizbullah to launch massive rocket attacks against Israel if the Jewish state targets Tehran's nuclear facilities, analysts told Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post.

"The Iranians – who are largely responsible for building up Hizbullah to such an extent that today it has more firepower than 90 percent of the countries of the world – would 'call in their chips,' and the organization would launch massive rocket attacks against Israel's home front," the analysts said about a possible Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.

"It is probable some of the Hizbullah attacks would come from Syria, which means that Damascus would be drawn into the conflict," according to the daily.

The analysts told the Post that the new Mossad chief, Tamir Pardo, is climbing to the top of the intelligence community pyramid with working assumptions already in place on a number of issues, notably the possible strike on the nuclear facilities and its aftermath.

The outgoing Mossad chief, Meir Dagan, who retired from his post on Thursday after eight years, said he does not believe Iran will have nuclear capability before 2015.

In a summary given to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Dagan said Iran was a long way from being able to produce nuclear weapons, following a series of failures that had set its program back by several years.