Nasrallah to Those Who Criticize Hezbollah on Syria Fight: Join Us
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Hezbollah Secretary General Seyed Hassan Nasrallah called for those who urge the group to withdraw from Syria to join the party's fight against Takfiri (extremist) terrorists in Syria, Iraq and everywhere as the terrorists set holy cities of Mecca and Medina their main targets.
“I call for those who are urging us to withdraw from Syria to join us in our fight in Syria. Let's go to Iraq and everywhere to face off this threat because this is the right way to defend Lebanon,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech during a ceremony commemorating the martyrdom of group's leading figures Sheikh Ragheb Harb, Seyed Abbas Al-Mousawi and Haj Imad Moughniyeh.
Seyed Nasrallah warned the so-called ISIL terrorist group’s main target was Saudi Arabia, Mecca and Medina and not only Baghdad, noting that its ‘caliphate’ would not attain its goal without enforcing dominance on Islam’s two holiest sites. He said the Takfiri danger was threatening Islam as a whole and not only several regimes, Al Manar reported.
The secretary general used the bulk of his speech to talk about the Takfiri threat that was increasing day after another.
“Confronting ISIL militarily and politically amounts to defending Islam. We consider ourselves, in Hezbollah, that we are defending Islam as a whole. The origin of the brutality and violence of ISIL Takfiris is Hollywood. Any behavior by he who pretends to be a Muslim but contradicts the rules of humanity is not a Muslim at all.”
He said that Yemen’s Houthis were also standing against ISIL and preventing their expansion, praising the movement as “rightful”, “brave” and “wise.”
“All world countries consider ISIL a huge threat, except Israel. ISIL agenda had immensely served the Israeli one,” Seyed Nasrallah stated, adding that we should search for the Israeli, CIA, KGB hands in ISIL actions and terrorism.
"Jordan cannot fight ISIL in Iraq and support Al-Nusra in Syria, terrorist groups are all faces of the same coin," he said, adding, “People in the region must not wait for an international strategy to fight the Takfiri threat. Everybody should have the initiative to face this threat as we are doing."
Seyed Nasrallah saluted the resistance who are fighting this threat in difficult circumstances. “We must renew the salutation to the young men who are deployed on the heights of mountains, the officers and soldiers of the army and security forces and the men of the resistance. We also salute the officers and soldiers of the Syrian army who are preventing the dispatch of bomb-laden cars. They have all our salutations and appreciation amid this snow and cold.”
