Nasrallah Vows to Win Syria War, Defeat 'U.S.-Takfiri Scheme'
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah pledged Friday that his party and its allies will emerge victorious from the ongoing war in Syria, accusing the United States of being the “leader” of what he described as the “rival front” in the region.
“We will not back down in this battle if anyone is betting on this. This is a battle that we believe in and we will win it,” Nasrallah told frenzied supporters in a rare public appearance at the Sayyed al-Shohada Complex in Beirut's southern suburbs.
Nasrallah's speech marked the last night of the Ashura religious commemorations and he is expected to deliver another address on Saturday morning on Ashura's tenth and last day.
“We will keep standing in the face of Israel and its threats and wars and in the face of the takfiris,” the Hizbullah leader added.
He noted that “the rival front is not led by (al-Nusra Front chief Abu Mohamed) al-Jolani, (al-Qaida chief Ayman) al-Zawahiri or (Islamic State chief Abu Bakr) al-Baghdadi, but rather by the United States.”
“The ongoing war is not for the sake of reforms, democracy, human rights, poverty or countering ignorance but it is rather aimed at subjugating those who rejected the U.S. scheme and punishing those who defeated the New Middle East scheme in 2006,” added Nasrallah, referring to the 2006 war between his group and Israel.
“The resistance in Lebanon, (President Bashar) Assad's Syria, Palestine and Iran toppled the New Middle East scheme and the U.S. wants them to pay the price. This is how we should interpret the current battle,” Nasrallah said.
He noted that all jihadists and rebels fighting to topple Assad are “serving the U.S. interests.”
“All of America's talk about human rights and democracy is meaningless because the biggest dictatorships in the region are sponsored by the U.S.,” Nasrallah said, referring to Arab countries.
“The governments in the region are nothing but local administrations headed by a king or a president, because the decisions of war, peace, foreign policy and markets are in the hands of the U.S.,” he lamented.
“The U.S. wants us to accept Israel under the threat of waging all kinds of wars against us,” said Nasrallah.
He pointed out that Israel will “lose its ability to survive in our region” if “America weakens,” noting that the Palestinian people are “suffering the burden of the U.S. hegemony over our region.”
“The U.S. and the successive American administrations are to blame for all of Israel's actions, even more than (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu and Netanyahu's terrorist army,” Nasrallah added.
Hizbullah has sent elite forces across the border with Syria to bolster Assad's regime in the face of an Islamist-led uprising.
Russia and Iran are also providing instrumental military support for the Syrian government.
Y.R.
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