Zarif Urges 'Foreign Elements' Withdrawal from Syria, Says Hizbullah Took 'Own' Decision to Interfere
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Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif revealed on Friday that Hizbullah “took its own decision” to get involved in the Syrian war, urging all “foreign elements” to withdraw from the neighboring country.
"Iran did not send anyone to Syria and Hizbullah took its own decision to fight there,” Zarif said at a seminar held on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland's Davos, noting that the party has “exerted lots of efforts to safeguard stability” in Lebanon.
"And we urge all foreign elements to withdraw from Syria,” he added.
Iran was finally not invited to join the opening of a peace conference in Switzerland, because it has failed to sign up to a 2012 accord which sets out that President Bashar Assad must give way to a transitional government to end the fighting.
Zarif continued: "We call for stop funneling funds and money and arms into Syria and to allow the Syrian people to decide their destiny... hopefully in Geneva, although we were not invited. But we are hoping that Geneva can produce results, because we are in the region, we will be affected by any disaster coming out of the region."
On whether Assad would have survived against a determined uprising without Tehran's help, Zarif assured that "of course he would."
"Nobody would survive unless they have domestic legitimacy," he explained.
Caretaker FM Adnan Mansour on Wednesday told the conferees during the Geneva II summit that Hizbullah's interference in Syria is not the problem, pointing out that the region's upheaval is cause by the presence of terrorist ideologies
“Those claiming that what is happening in Syria is a result of Hizbullah's involvement in the war want to divert attention from the fact that there are foreign terrorist groups in the region,” Mansour said during his participation at the Syria peace talks.
24 January 2014, 18:51
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it tells us that HA makes its own decisions.
and bless them for the wisdom they had to cleanse the border areas from the sectarian murdering filth before it managed to take root. without HA's intervention, there would be much bigger and much more frequent bombings.
24 January 2014, 20:01
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God bless them, so when will they return home, cause (thks hezbos) takfiri are blowing themself in our coutry now...
So any chance nassralah get an illumination now (aka: laouw kountou a3lam...)
24 January 2014, 20:09
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@mowaten: Didn't your parents teach you not to talk when your mouth is FULL of lies.
24 January 2014, 21:07
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Hezbollah will never leave Syria, until their mission is complete. End of story
24 January 2014, 18:55
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are you trying to deny the tens of thousands of foreign fighters who poured into syria years before hezbollah?
there are truckloads of corpses of libyans, afghanis, tunisians, saudis, qataris, afghanis, pakistanis that prove it, so nice try but better luck next time.
24 January 2014, 19:07
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no he is not but your iranian masters deny the involvment of iran! wahahaha!
24 January 2014, 20:10
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Mowaten like irakian shiite milicia? Iranian revolutionary gards?...
The difference is that some people only see sunnis takfiri while if u look to the full picture shia takfiri also exist..
And sorry bot all sunis are takfiri according to march 8; there is the cery secular bilal chaaban, and the much more progressist hachem minkara... (Abou addass, chaker el abssi..and other gifts from syrian regime does not count....
Chupachups mouwaten?..
24 January 2014, 22:11
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Thank you for listing the Nationalities of the dead fighters. So why is HA there again? Would be much more useful to ensure demarcated borders between Lebanon and Syria to keep those takfiris out so HA can disarm and let the LAF take care of business.
24 January 2014, 19:23
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no anonyme, those were lies and for the first two years they kept saying HA was there when they werent, and rebels never managed to give the slightest proof of any hezbollah presence. when hezbollah decided to go in they werent timid, they said it loud and clear, and that's when we saw the evidence (and effectiveness) of HA fighters on the battlefield.
before that, the rebels were pretending HA was there anyway, to justify massacring shias. whether HA is present or not, they're going to say that it is, so might as well be there and trim their numbers down.
24 January 2014, 19:25
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he's talking spiritually, but project whatever you want to believe onto it. you would never listen to anything he says unless you find a way to twist it against him.
24 January 2014, 20:04
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Again thx lebpat for ur bright comments, stop being frustrated go get some chupachups
24 January 2014, 20:14
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No texas hezbos were never in syria, the corps of the martyr coming from there were only guys who died of natural death.. Even moghniyeh was there for vacation...
And anyway nasrallah never lied (aka:we never pointed our guns on lebanese so 3000 fighter just died by heart attack in aklim al toufah and communist leaders who where in true patriotic secular resistance not the islamic resistance just commited suicide...
So texas i think this is the logic u should work on bro..
Plus one to u anyway :)
25 January 2014, 00:34
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When will the world make Saudi Arabia pay for this most extreme form of state sponsored terrorism?
I guess the French client state will not hold them to account.
25 January 2014, 01:32
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Tex aka helicopter you are not even Lebanese and you're al Alqaeda supporter. Anything you post has no credibility.
25 January 2014, 06:24
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HA is concerned about protecting lebanons borders from takfiris then help the army control the border, help them build walls, checkpoints and assist them in by withdrawing from Syria. Stop distorting facts and stop weakening the state, because if the state fails we will have a free for all in Lebanon and no one wants that.
25 January 2014, 06:30
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Stop sending young brainwashed men into a fight that is not ours, use that money to build factories and employ your unemployed, hand over you arsenal to the army as part of the national defense strategy and worry about the internal issues. You are a resistance group not an invading army you have no business being there. Enough is enough all the propaganda in the world will not justify what you are doing there.
25 January 2014, 08:17
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Zarif said : hippos took their own decision 2 interfere in Syria ,please send him the video where Nassri said he only obeys the Fakih .
