Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah saluted on Friday all those who were wounded in battle, their families, medical staff and others on the occasion of the 'Wounded Resistance Fighters Day', adding that Hezbollah is the resistance movement that brought down brutal foreign rule, not to be forgotten.
“The
new generation must know of our past achievements; that era that separates the
resistance fighters from the agents,” he said, stressing that Hezbollah
is an integral part of the Lebanese community, since it has presented martyrs for the
integrity of the country.
“We do
not hold a dual citizenship, only the Lebanese. We were born here, we live here and we will die in Lebanon, no one can take that away from us,”
Commenting
on the rockets falling on Baalbeck, Nasrallah said that there is some sort of a
foreign intelligence plan aiming at inciting a Sunni-Shiite strife in the
region, pointing out that "the rockets that hit
the Sareen, Baalbeck, Hermel areas did not come from the Lebanese border town of Arsal but from rebel
groups across the border."
On another note, Sayyed Nasrallah condemned the incident that occurred before the Iranian embassy in Beirut stressing that it was an accidental.
"The man who was killed during the
clashes was innocent."
Regarding
Hezbollah’s intervention in Syria, Nasrallah said Hezbollah decided to
interfere in the Syrian crisis and participate in the battles on the ground in
order to stand against a project targeting Lebanon and the region, stressing
that “Hezbollah is among the last to enter the Syrian war, preceded
by the Future bloc and other parties”.
“Had
our interference in the Syrian
battles been alongside the opposition, would it have been deemed blessed?”
he asked.
“We
never hid and said we were delivering milk and blankets in Syria, we declared that we were fighting,” he
continued, adding that the Syrian army fights on its land, while the resistance has only taken
part of the responsibility "to face this US-Israeli-Takfiri project."
However, Nasrallah
denied that Hezbollah had any conscripts
in the Gulf, noting that the anger
emanating from the Gulf States is a result of the defeat they feel on a project
they had hoped would come out triumphant.
“I
was not aware that the Gulf Cooperation Council had any blacklist but we are
honored to be on the US terror list,” Nasrallah stated.
He stressed that those who
think that placing Hezbollah on terror lists and exerting pressure will change the
party’s stance is delusional, noting that resorting to sectarian rhetoric is a sign of weakness.
“Our
stance post the al-Qussayr battles is the same as it was before and we will be
where we are needed,” he concluded.
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