U.S. official attacks Iran, Syria on Lebanon crisis

"Iran created Hezbollah in 1982. Iran has funded Hezbollah and Iran has provided the long-range rockets that are raining down on the northern part of Israel right now," Burns said.

"We have to see this conflict as not just as one between Hezbollah and Israel as a border conflict. It is a wider conflict because Iran is acting in a way that is fundamentally contrary to the hopes of all of us for stability and peace in the Middle East," Burns said.

"It was Iran and Syria that led Hezbollah to make this attack," Burns added.

The United States has repeatedly accused Iran and Syria of supporting the Lebanese Hezbollah, who has waged a fierce battle with Israel since July 12.

/Xinhua/