BEIRUT, Sept 14 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The Lebanese Muslim Resistance Movement, Hezbollah said Saturday that the United States practices terrorism and that it has no right to launch a war on Iraq, news agencies reported.

"In principle, the United States has no right to launch a war on an Arab or Muslim state or any other country around the world," the movement quoted its leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah as telling a rally the previous evening, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).

"What right does America have to take the decision of launching a war? It is a country that practices terrorism and supports the terrorist state of Israel, and then comes to fight terrorism," Nasrallah charged.

The Hezbollah leader mocked U.S. charges that Iraq is seeking weapons of mass destruction, accusing Washington of helping Israel to develop its large non-conventional arsenal.

The United States "has weapons of mass destruction, and continue to produce them and provide them to Israel," Nasrallah said.

"American forces, armies, intelligence services kill people, and the state of America builds dictatorship states and governments in the world and protects dictatorships."

The Hezbollah leader dismissed U.S. warnings earlier this month that it would move against the group in "good time". "The American threats against Hezbollah that we recently heard are nothing new. They accuse us of having a blood debt to them, and we, in turn have a blood debt with them because they are the ones who started the war, killed and bombarded the (Lebanese) mountains and the (Beirut) suburbs.

"We have not forgotten what the U.S. destroyers did in Lebanon," he said apparently referring to the 1983 bombardment of the Shouf mountains by the USS New Jersey at the height of the 1975-1990 civil war.

"We tell the Americans that we will never be shaken in our faith under any pressure or threat, and we are not worried because the foolish American policy will only harm its own standing in the world."

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage warned on September 5 that Hezbollah may be the "A-team" of "terrorism".

Meanwhile, the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, quoted Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres saying that if the international community does not take a stand against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, it could be a repeat of Europe's mistake when it did not face Adolph Hitler in 1939.

Peres was speaking after U.S. President George Bush called for action against the regime in Baghdad in a speech Thursday to the United Nations General Assembly, the paper reported.

Peres implied that a European decision to confront the German leader would have prevented World War II and saved millions of lives.

"By running away from what should be done, you solve nothing and you make the situation worse," Peres said, speaking to a gathering sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations. He called Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein a "cruel, cold-blooded killer."

Peres is in the U.S. for talks with Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and other officials.

Hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said last week that the United States would give Israel sufficient warning before an attack on Iraq to allow it time to prepare for expected counterattacks against it by Baghdad, said Ha’aretz.

Peres described Israel as a "loyal soldier" in support of the United States in its quest to dislodge Saddam.

"When somebody goes to war he knows there are risks. You don't do it out of pleasure but you do it with the deep conviction that by running away from what should be done, you solve nothing and you make the situation worse.

"We can imagine having dangers," he said. "But this is our duty. We belong to the same world. We shall not pass the buck."

On Friday, Bush urged the UN to fix a deadline for action against Iraq in "days and weeks". "We must have deadlines, and we're talking days and weeks, not months and years," Bush told reporters Friday.

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the Security Council permanent members -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- had agreed there must be a time limit but none has yet been set.

Iraq and the United Nations are set to hold talks about the disarmament process "in three or four days", Arab League general secretary Amr Musa said Saturday.

U.N. chief Kofi Annan would "resume discussions" with Iraq's Foreign Minister Naji Sabri, Musa told Al-Hayat newspaper.

With the dialogue continuing, there was no need for any new U.N. resolution against Baghdad as proposed by Bush, he told the London-based daily.