BEIRUT: Israel has neither the power nor the ability to attack Lebanon, Iran’s Ambassador Ghazanfar Roknabadi said Wednesday.

“The Israelis don’t have the strength to carry out any attack on Lebanon,” Roknabadi told Hezbollah’s Al-Nour radio station.

“We do not want to have to repel any attack; Israel would be automatically wiped out of existence,” he said.

Roknabadi said Iran “challenges the whole world” in its 33-year-long and ongoing commitment to the principles of the Iranian revolution.

“We are proud to support all the just and righteous causes. And on this basis we support the resistance and all those who resist the Zionist occupation in the world," he added in reference to Hezbollah of Lebanon and Hamas of Palestine.

But Roknabadi maintained that the current era is not one of war.

"We are not in a time of military conflict. Instead, we have entered the age of technology and nanotechnology,” he said, while boasting that Iran ranks first among Arab and Islamic countries when it comes to nuclear technology.

He said Iran has never succumbed to diktats from the U.S. or Israel “and now we are headed toward changing global governance."

Roknabadi also warned that Tehran would respond should the West commit any follies.