Nasrallah: US manipulated Syria grievances
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday accused the US and Israel of using legitimate grievances in Syria as an excuse to destroy the country and the resistance to further Israel's control over the Middle East.
Speaking after the death of three senior Syrian politicians in a bomb attack on Wednesday morning, Nasrallah hailed the men and warned that Syria risked destruction if it slid further into civil war.
"(The West and Israel) took advantage of the legitimate demands of the Syrian people...they put Syria into a war, they forbade negotiations," he said.
"What is required (by the US) in Syria is to divide it, to destroy it, to rip it apart just like Iraq," he said, referring to the chaos left behind after nine years of US occupation in Iraq.
Nasrallah said that Israel had been concerned by Syria's increased military capabilities and had sought to sow discontent in the country.
"They looked at Syria and saw over the past years... first of all a new military strategy began in Syria," he said, adding that before the uprising the country was "a real military power that (was) capable of presenting a real military threat to Israel."
Speaking on the sixth anniversary of the 2006 war with Israel, in which the Jewish state suffered defeat at the hands of Hezbollah, Nasrallah said Hezbollah's victory had increased concern about Syrian strength.
"There is only one army left that is not connected with the Americans. It's the Syrian army. Since the July (2006) war they have been working on destroying this army," he said.
Nasrallah also confirmed that the "most important" weapons used against Israel in the war were supplied by Syria.
"Syria is a real supporter of the resistance... on the military level as well," he said. "The most important missiles that landed in occupied Palestine were manufactured or made in Syria."
Call for calm
Referring to Lebanon, Nasrallah called for calm following an upturn in violence in recent months, much of it related to the Syrian crisis.
"I call for calm and patience. You have heard a lot of curses and you will hear a lot of curses in the future," he said.
"This doesn't concern only the Sunnis and the Shia...amongst all sects there are some who are trying to rip apart our community."
The Shia leader also urged all sects in the country to move away from provocative language, calling for a new document dealing with sectarianism.
Under the new rules, he said, "if a Shia person, whether he be a politician or a religious person, if he says anything offensive then we, the Shia, will stand against him. Same goes for the Sunnis, the Druze and the Christians."
"Can we go ahead and adopt such a document in Lebanon?"
He also backed the current government to continue despite ongoing tensions between rival factions, saying such debate was healthy.
"In the government we have disagreements... but there are positives as it shows it is a coalition government, not a government of Hezbollah," he said.
(Al-Akhbar)
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"Iran's involvement in Afghanistan wasn't just limited to Herat, and the presence of Iranian troops fighting with the Americans on the ground is one of the biggest fada'ih of the Iranian regime proving it plays a double game,"
Give us proof for these ridiculous allegations, not wahhabi or Iranian "Green Movement" fairy tales please.
"and yet it has no problem collaborating with the Americans when it suits its purpose."
Islamic Iran never "collaborated" with the Americans. The only regimes which do so in the region, are the PGCC-Jordan-Turkey axis.
"The Iranian regime also opened its airspace for American warplanes and supply routes"
In some wahhabi science fiction novel, perhaps.
"and its allies like the Northern Alliance and Hezb-Wehdat collaborated rode American tanks into power and tooks billions from the Americans and Hamid Karzai is on the payroll of both the Americans and Iran, so your denial and minimizing of Iran and its allies' role in this matter is a joke and reveals your sectarian hypocrisy and partisanship."
Your idea that Iran and the US regime's interests in the region converge is a joke and reflects baseless anti-Iranian bias. Karzai can be on the "payroll" of several opposing governments, many others were throughout history.
"And many Sunnis in Pakistan opposed the treachery and collaboration of the Pakistani regime with the West,"
We are talking about the Pakistani regime, not the people.
"while there isn't a single Iranian, Amal or Hezbollah, offical or shaykh, who have been engaging in a takhween war against all of the Syrian opposition"
Huh? Iran invited the Syrian opposition to the negotiation table. Get a grip.
"who uttered a single word of condemnation against their allies who rode to power on American tanks proving their utter sectarianism."
No, it doesn't prove your accusations at all, because contrary to the so-called Syrian "opposition", which consist of paid foreign mercenaries and war criminals with no popular legitimacy, Iran's allies never intended to let the US stay in Iraq. And they did not "ride to power on American tanks", they were elected by the Iraqi people. Tough luck for your wahhabi buddies who cannot tolerate it when an Arab country has friendly relations with Iran, because they are basically un-Islamic Arab supremacists, much like the Umayyad dynasty. Anyone Iraqi leader who sought to orolong the US occupation, was *not* on Iranian "payroll".
"You obviously didn't read my previous posts and you are typical of the braindead "mumanists" who pretend that anybody who opposes Iran's designs on the Arab world is an America and Saudi stooge."
So far, all you have done is to parrot the wahhabi line against the Resistance Axis. Iran's "designs on the Arab world" are to help Arab Muslims achieve self-determination against foreign imperialism and its stooges. If you want to oppose those "evil, evil designs" ("worse than the Jews!", right?), then go ahead and dwell in your bias.
The Resistance Axis has weathered far worse conspiracies than this, and your beloved NATO-mercenaries in Syria are about to join the trashcan of history along with Saddam, the Taliban, and the global US / zionist empire.
"tens of thousands of Sunni Islamists in Saudi who have opposed and confronted the treachery of the Saudi regime since Gulf War I till now and many of them are in Saudi dungeons, so we don't lessons in self-criticism from the the hypocrites of the Iran-Syria axis who were totally silent on their allies who rode to power on American tanks. Put up or shut up."
By Saudi "islamists" in jail, you must mean al-Qaida, people who target civilians and whose objective is to slaughter every religious minority in the region to please their US and zionist masters, like they are doing in Syria right now. Right, they need no "lessons in self-criticism" from anyone, since they exemplify Islamic conduct... not!
Iran's involvement in Afghanistan wasn't just limited to Herat, and the presence of Iranian troops fighting with the Americans on the ground is one of the biggest fada'ih of the Iranian regime proving it plays a double game, even though it is opposed to America, and yet it has no problem collaborating with the Americans when it suits its purpose. The Iranian regime also opened its airspace for American warplanes and supply routes and its allies like the Northern Alliance and Hezb-Wehdat collaborated rode American tanks into power and tooks billions from the Americans and Hamid Karzai is on the payroll of both the Americans and Iran, so your denial and minimizing of Iran and its allies' role in this matter is a joke and reveals your sectarian hypocrisy and partisanship. And many Sunnis in Pakistan opposed the treachery and collaboration of the Pakistani regime with the West, while there isn't a single Iranian, Amal or Hezbollah, offical or shaykh, who have been engaging in a takhween war against all of the Syrian opposition, who uttered a single word of condemnation against their allies who rode to power on American tanks proving their utter sectarianism. You obviously didn't read my previous posts and you are typical of the braindead "mumanists" who pretend that anybody who opposes Iran's designs on the Arab world is an America and Saudi stooge. Go back and read my previous posts and I did condemn the treachery of the Khaleejis and the people who confronted the treachery of the Saudi regime the most, are the tens of thousands of Sunni Islamists in Saudi who have opposed and confronted the treachery of the Saudi regime since Gulf War I till now and many of them are in Saudi dungeons, so we don't lessons in self-criticism from the the hypocrites of the Iran-Syria axis who were totally silent on their allies who rode to power on American tanks. Put up or shut up.
yawn. blah, blah, blah. so if he's so big & bad, why doesn't fatso come out of his rat celler and show his face? answer: because he knows the mossad will blow his corpulent ass to smithereens. yeah, hezbollah "defeated" israel. suuuure.
Yeah, the Judeofascists leaders are out annd about during the war, but don't worry Israel will be defeated because of Palestinian demographics, something which makes your ilk stew in their rage. Start packing your bags and booking your one way ticket out of Palestine and you can make the desert bloom somewhere else as if Palestine was an arid desert before the Zionists came.
Yeah, zombified Usama bin Laden is returning from the dead thanks to some secret wahhabi magic trick, and he will liberate Palestine on his Taliban-made tank very soon... Can't wait to witness that glorious day! :D :D :D
Palestine will be liberated by the Islamic Revolution of Imam Khomeini (ra), not by a bunch of blood thirsty NATO-mercenaries trained in Nicaragua-style mass beheadings by their NATO masters accross the Turkish and Jordanian borders.
Where was Nasrallah and his non-stop takhween of all of the Syrian opposition on Al-Manar when Iran and its cronies were collaborating with the Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq, riding their tanks into power and taking billions from them, and when Chalabi and the INC were cavorting with the Zionist Neocons?
"Under the new rules, he said, "if a Shia person, whether he be a politician or a religious person, if he says anything offensive then we, the Shia, will stand against him. Same goes for the Sunnis, the Druze and the Christians."
So when Hezbollah cleric, Afif Nabulsi, writes a foreword to book full of attacks on Abu Bakr and Umar, in which a Sudanese Shi'ite says that Umar is responsible for the establishment of Israel! and Nabulsi says about the book, "La naksha fi-Allah lawmat la'im", then hypocriticallys calls for Islamic unity, are we going to see Nasrallah condemn him? Nabulsi is also hypocritical when it comes to "mumana'a" saying a few weeks ago in reference to Syria, it is wrong to ask for external intervention to solve internals problems and yet he was totally silent on his buddies who rode to power on American tanks.
"Where was Nasrallah and his non-stop takhween of all of the Syrian opposition on Al-Manar when Iran and its cronies were collaborating with the Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq, riding their tanks into power and taking billions from them, and when Chalabi and the INC were cavorting with the Zionist Neocons?"
The only place where Iran "collaborates" with the US, is in sectarianist fantasies propagated by Qatar, the Saudi regime, and other wahhabis.
The INC, an Iranian proxy? As for Chalabi, what do we really know about this individual? I don't believe anything the regime-controlled American media have to say, whether about Saddam's non-existing "WMD" or about Chalabi having been an "Iranian spy" all along and having singlehandedly "deceived" the mighty US into invading Iraq.
""Under the new rules, he said, "if a Shia person, whether he be a politician or a religious person, if he says anything offensive then we, the Shia, will stand against him. Same goes for the Sunnis, the Druze and the Christians."
So when Hezbollah cleric, Afif Nabulsi, writes a foreword to book full of attacks on Abu Bakr and Umar, in which a Sudanese Shi'ite says that Umar is responsible for the establishment of Israel! and Nabulsi says about the book, "La naksha fi-Allah lawmat la'im", then hypocriticallys calls for Islamic unity, are we going to see Nasrallah condemn him? Nabulsi is also hypocritical when it comes to "mumana'a" saying a few weeks ago in reference to Syria, it is wrong to ask for external intervention to solve internals problems and yet he was totally silent on his buddies who rode to power on American tanks."
It's a mere proposal by Hezbollah's Secretary General, don't you get it? A proposal, not an already existing, enforced rule. And please don't get me started about similar statements from clerics of every other sect in the past.
I am starting to doubt if you actually read the article. Could it be that you just perceived some vague reference to seyyed Hassan Nasrallah speaking out against sectarianiasm, instantly and mechanically prompting you to jump the gun by repeating the same old mantra about "Iran and its allies collaborating with the US occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan".
The "rafidhi kuffar" Ahmadinejad has vicious "sectarian" plans to "eradicate every Sunni from the face of the map", didn't you know? Of course these plans are all top secret, because "rafidha" Iran is practicing permanent "taghiya", as our learned scholars from the prestigious, centuries old rural madrasas of NWFP have taught us. So no one knows about them, except for prince Bandar Bush, who has now arrived with his team of super-agents who are so efficient that they can guess Iran's real objectives behind the veil of "taghiya", by simply staring at a map of the Greater Arabian Khaleej!
And no, Pashtuns are not Iranians, it's just another "rafidhi majoosi" trick! The truth is that Pashtuns speak a very harsh sounding Arabic and look masculine (unlike "rafidhi majoosis"), so case closed: Pashtuns are Arabs because they are Muslims, and Muslims because they are Arabs! Anyone who disagrees with this aqeeda is either a "kuffar", a "khwarijite", or a "rafidhi" (in case of doubt, ask your local wahhabi expert on takfir).
What other horrible crimes did "evil majoosi rafidhi" Iran commit against "the Sunnis" after the victory of the Islamic (oooops, sorry - "bida'i mushrik kuffar Safawi") Revolution of 1979? Or are you saying these Ajam "kuffars" turned into "evil majoosi rafidhis" overnight in 2001? Is that possible? Perhaps some weird Hindu-majoosi spell by that Jew Ibn Sabah, after all the guy "invented Shiaism" to "destroy Islam from within", didn't he? Ibn Taymiya said so, Abdul Wahhab regurgitated it, and the British thanked him for spreading fitna among Muslims for several generations to come.
The cancerous tumor of wahhabism will soon be extracted from the region along with its twin, zionism. The majority orthodox Sunnis will themselves get rid of this fake aqeeda concocted by the western imperial powers. Just look at how Hamas and the Ikhwan crushed "Fatah al-Islam" in Gaza, and helped keeping Palestine free from the wahhabi plague.
Great victories lie ahead for the Resistance Axis, inshallah.
Iran's involvement in Afghanistan was mainly limited to Herat. Unless you believe American allegations that Iran arms the Taliban, which doesn't seem to make sense given their history of hostilities with the Taliban.
Your sectarian tone deliberately ignores that most of the help with military supplies, bases and logistics that allowed NATO to invade Afghanistant came from Pakistan - a Sunni country. Where's your sectarian tone now?
Furthermore, Iraq's destruction was acheived largely by the cooperation of the GCC Arab states who enforced the brutal sanctions on Iraq and who hosted American military bases. There were some exceptions to this embargo in the late 1990s and early 2000s, as limited trade was conducted via Jordan, Syria and Iran (http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL30472.pdf). In fact here's an interesting point "According to the Lebanese daily Al-Nahar, American officials confronted the Syrians in May, producing satellite photographs showing Syrian arms shipments en route to Iraq.8 However, the Bush administration has not publicly accused the Assad regime of violating UN weapons sanctions against Baghdad." (source:http://www.meforum.org/meib/articles/0209_s2.htm)
The Sunni Arab GCC states also hosted American military bases that were used to bomb Iraq in the 1990s and from which an invasion of Iraq was launched.
Yet, you turn a blind eye to the involvement of the Arabs in betraying Iraq and focus your comment on Iran, which is silly because Iran expanded their influence in Iraq - right or wrong this is self-interests in politics - but never forget that the Arab states, especially the GCC, through their betrayal, handed Iraq over to Iran on a silver plate.
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