Sayyed Nasrallah Warns ‘Israel’ of “Inevitable Response” to Any Attack on Lebanon
Tehran (Basirat) :Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah stressed that Hezbollah will inevitably respond to any attack against Lebanon and will not accept any underestimation by the enemy of the country’s power as it used to do in the past.
In a televised speech marking Hezbollah Martyr’s Day on Saturday, Sayyed
Nasrallah stressed that the "source of our strength are our missiles because the
Lebanese army is not allowed to acquire advanced missiles.”
The secretary general was responding to reports that the Zionist entity warned
the Lebanese government through American and European intermediaries that it was
readying to attack Hezbollah in the near future to prevent it from acquiring
advanced missiles.
Hezbollah has a tremendous rocket capability and the enemy will not dare to
attack Lebanon because of this power, His eminence stressed, adding that any
attack will be faced automatically.
His eminence saluted the families of the martyrs. "Thanks to martyrs’
sacrifices, the resistance has achieved all its victories.”
"[Israeli PM Benjamin] Netanyahu believes that the key of everything is power
and not the occupation,” Sayyed Nasrallah continued. "His problem, though, is
that we have the power. We will respond to any Israeli strike on Lebanon and
will not accept any aggression by the enemy on our land.”
Hezbollah’s S.G. condemned all form of normalization with the Zionist entity,
calling on "everyone to reject normalization and not to be silent about it, and
this duty is imposed by all standards and the voice must always be raised to
condemn all steps of normalization.”
Sayyed Nasrallah addressed the Palestinian people saying: "do not lose hope over
the Arab states’ normalization with ‘Israel’, what before went on behind the
scenes now is taking place publicly. The current normalization has put an end to
Arab hypocrisy, and brought down the masks of the swindlers and hypocrites.”
"Those who are taking part in Gaza return marches and those who are sacrificing
in Gaza and West Bank give us hope because they resist the pressures exerted on
them,” his eminence added. "Had the Syrian people and the government not
resisted the pressure, we would have seen Netanyahu in Damascus because most of
the so-called opposition in Syria maintains ties with ‘Israel’.”
Sayyed Nasrallah also deplored the international community’s outcry in the
aftermath of the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi while turning a
blind eye to the Saudi crimes it’s committing against Yemeni on a daily basis:
"While they complain about the murder, they ignore the crimes Saudi Arabia is
committing in Yemen.”
Sayyed Nasrallah pointed that the US calls for an end to the war on Yemen might
be a hoax, "the timing of these calls is doubted.” Addressing Yemeni people,
Sayyed Nasrallah called on them to remain patient and cling to their positions
"because you are closer to victory more than ever before.”
On Bahrain, Hezbollah leader said the regime ruling against opposition leader
Sheikh Ali Salman which had changed from innocence to life sentence confirms the
regime’s repressive nature.
Addressing US sanctions against Iran, Hezbollah leader said the party was not
afraid of any sanctions and "we will continue to hold on to our weapons and
missiles.” "Binding government formation with US sanctions on Iran and with the
crisis in Syria is ridiculous.”
Turning to the local issue of cabinet formation, Sayyed Nasrallah reiterated
Hezbollah’s backing for the participation of independent Sunni MPs in the
upcoming government.
"Lebanon does not need more than eight or ten ministers to represent all its
parties but they chose to make it 30. Why not form the government of 32 and
allow place for the representation of Sunni MPs,” his eminence said.
"Based on some parties criteria in ministerial shares, it was our right to
demand 10 ministerial shares. It seems humbleness in this country is useless,”
Sayyed Nasrallah responded to some allegations that Hezbollah was obstructing
the cabinet formation. "But we didn’t demand more than 6 ministers, which in
fact doesn’t reflect our parliamentary, political and popular size, but because
we wanted to facilitate the formation of this government.”
Sayyed Nasrallah also lashed out at Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid
Jumblatt who accused Hezbollah of ‘delaying the cabinet formation’, saying
Jumblatt has obstructed the government formation for four months and has no
right to speak of obstruction.
We behaved modestly before some parties because we wanted for this government to
be formed, His eminence indicated.
Hezbollah’s S.G. emphasized that the party has raised the demand to allocate a
ministerial portfolio for Sunni MPs "since day one after the Premier’s
designation. We told him that this demand was basic and necessary for the
formation of the new government.”
"Independent Sunnis were the ones who prevented the transformation of the
political conflict in the country to sectarian one,” he stressed, calling on the
PM-designate to give everyone his right of representation.
"We will remain at our allies side no matter how much time their issue would
take,” Sayyed Nasrallah said, advising the PM-designate that if he wants this
cabinet to be formed, "sectarian incitement will lead nowhere.”
On Hezbollah’s relations with the Lebanese President, Sayyed Nasrallah said:
"Relations between Hezbollah and [Michel] Aoun are intact and no one can drag us
to a rift over the Sunni MPs issue.”
"We will stand by the side of independent Sunni allies because we reject
isolation,” his eminence stressed, adding that Hezbollah will agree to any
decision by the Sunni MPs regarding their participation in the government.
Source: Al-Manar Website