Al-Qaeda issued a 90-minute video marking the Sept. 11 attacks on Monday that included new material criticizing Iran, Hezbollah and Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf while calling for the continuation of jihad to establish a Muslim umma, or homeland.

In the video, which aired on Al Jazeera, the station to which the terrorist group typically sends it missives, deputy group leader Ayman al-Zawahri accused Iran of taking part in a Western "Crusader" war against Islam.

The video also showed apparently recent footage of senior al-Qaeda figure Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, casting doubt on a report that he was killed on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan last month.

No Shiite fatwas

In the video, Zawahri attacked Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini, questioning the Islamic Republic's anti-Western stand.

"The (leader of Iran) collaborates with the Americans in occupying Iraq and Afghanistan and recognizes the puppet regimes in both countries, while he warns of death and destruction to anyone who touches an inch of Iranian soil," Zawahri said.

Al-Qaeda, a militant Sunni Islamist group, often criticizes predominantly Shiite Iran, which has good relations with Afghanistan's anti-Taliban leaders and Iraq's Shiite-led government.

"Not even one Shiite authority -- whether in Iraq or elsewhere -- has issued a fatwa (religious edict) obligating jihad and taking up of arms against the American Crusader invaders in Iraq and Afghanistan," Zawahri said.

Zawahiri also blasted Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah for claiming a false victory in the war against Israel in 2006, berating him for claiming victory and suggesting that Israel benefited.

"The most bizarre and astounding thing is that Hassan Nasrallah celebrates a victory every year,” said Zawahiri, according to Al Jazeera’s website. “What victory? Retreating 30 miles backwards?"

Zawahiri has been indicted for his alleged role in the August 7, 1998, bombings of the U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya.

The FBI has offered a reward of up to 25 million dollars for information leading to his arrest or conviction.

Nasrallah, Musharraf attacked

Another segment of the video showed Yazid commenting on the resignation of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, announced on August 18 -- six days after a Pakistani official said Yazid had been killed in clashes with Pakistani forces near the Afghan border.

Abu al-Yazid, also known as Abu Saeed al-Masri, said on the video that Musharraf was "humiliated by God" for betraying Islam.

"So here he is ... finding no option but to resign from the presidency," he said.

Leaders in Afghanistan also came under attack as did Arab states that did not support the Palestinians, who are currently under siege. Islamist factions in Somalia, however, received praise for their recent victories.

Yazid, believed to be commander of al-Qaeda operations in
Afghanistan, is an Egyptian who served time in jail with Zawahri after the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981.

The video is the latest in a series of tapes that have been released periodically by al-Qaeda, often near the anniversary of the attacks that killed more than 3,000 in the World Trade Center.