Nasrallah Hails Aoun's Border Op Decision, Says 'Golden Equation' Vital Even if Army Gets Stronger
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Hizbullah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday hailed President Michel Aoun over the Lebanese state's decision to launch Operation Dawn of the Outskirts, as he noted that the controversial “army-people-resistance equation” will remain needed even if the army gets stronger.
“The state's decision to launch Operation Dawn of the Outskirts was a very significant development and represented a form of practicing a sovereign political decision,” Nasrallah told via video link a Hizbullah rally in Baalbek celebrating what Nasrallah has dubbed Lebanon's “Second Liberation Day”.
“This is one of the achievements of the new presidential term represented by President Michel Aoun, the man whom I always described as a brave, independent leader who does not bow or submit to any state, embassy, pressures or intimidation,” Nasrallah added.
“When the victory was achieved in Arsal's outskirts (against al-Nusra Front militants), the Americans told the Lebanese that they were dismayed, and when the Lebanese state decided that the gallant Lebanese army should liberate the rest of the Lebanese land, the Americans once again asked Lebanese officials not to carry out this military operation, threatening to halt aid to the Lebanese army,” Nasrallah explained.
He pointed out that Aoun “preserved the state's prestige through taking a sovereign Lebanese decision to launch the border operation” against the Islamic State group in the outskirts of the eastern border towns of al-Qaa and Ras Baalbek.
Praising the Lebanese army's ouster of IS militants from the area, Nasrallah said the army and its command “did a great job that should be lauded.”
“Political confidence in the Lebanese army's ability to perform significant operations must be boosted... Strengthening the Lebanese army has long been our demand and it reinforces Lebanon's ability to face all threats,” Nasrallah noted.
But he pointed out that strengthening the army “does not render the army-people-resistance golden equation useless, but rather reinforces it.”
“No matter how much the army gets stronger and the Resistance gets stronger, we will always need more strength when we speak of Israel's ambitions. Speaker Nabih Berri has warned that they are seeking to steal our water, oil, gas and borders,” Nasrallah warned.
Turning to the controversial ceasefire agreement that involved the evacuation of dozens of IS militants from the Lebanon-Syria border region to eastern Syria, Nasrallah -- who has lived in hiding for a decade -- said he had traveled to Damascus to seek the Syrian president's approval of the deal.
"I personally went to Damascus" to see President Bashar al-Assad, Nasrallah revealed, noting that the Syrian leader accepted to be "embarrassed" by the deal for the sake of Lebanon and the case of its IS-held troops.
Hundreds of IS fighters and and their families were evacuated Monday from the border region between Lebanon and Syria under the ceasefire deal that followed separate but simultaneous offensives by the Lebanese army and Hizbullah and the Syrian army on both sides of the border.
In return, the IS group gave Hizbullah coordinates that helped Lebanese authorities recover the bodies of nine Lebanese troops abducted by the jihadists in 2014 and eventually killed while Hizbullah was handed over a captive fighter, the bodies of five slain members and the corpse of an Iranian soldier.
31 August 2017, 18:05
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“Second Liberation” over a few dozen friendly terrorists like him who were transported in air conditioned buses belonging to the mahdi schools that he owns.
lol
31 August 2017, 18:10
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No Sir! We do not want to live with you and your backaged culture. No. No. No and never.
31 August 2017, 18:13
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You have divided this country and destroyed the most beautiful thing : the living together. It is something simple for you to understand that we cannot live with your stone age culture.
31 August 2017, 18:14
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the day this iranian sectarian terrorist is brutally and violently murdered is the day we celebrate our true independence.
31 August 2017, 18:22
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How many times does this pos have to show his filthy iranian face per week?!
31 August 2017, 18:29
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You are NOT a resistance. You are NOT constructors, but destroyers. You use the same totalitarianism that Zionists use. YOU order us to accept a "liberation day" whether we like it or not. You use fascistic ways and zionistic methods. No you will not be able to destroy us. You will end up by losing. It is only a matter of time.
31 August 2017, 18:50
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Nasrallah: When the victory was achieved in Arsal's outskirts, the Americans told the Lebanese that they were dismayed, and when the Lebanese state decided that the gallant Lebanese army should liberate the rest of the Lebanese land, the Americans once again asked Lebanese officials not to carry out this military operation, threatening to halt aid to the Lebanese army.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander General Joseph L. Votel has held phone talks with Lebanese Army Commander General Joseph Aoun to congratulate him on “the success of Operation Dawn of the Outskirts,” the Army Command said in a statement.
Votel lauded “the performance of the participating units and assured that U.S. support for the Lebanese army with arms and equipment will continue in order to develop its capabilities and reinforce its missions,” the statement said.
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/234733-u-s-says-support-for-army-to-continue-as-military-sources-deny-aid-halt
31 August 2017, 18:52
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Hizb will do everything it can to hurt the Lebanese army and keeping it weak as no respectable country will accept a militia funded and armed by brutal nations unless given no choice. Hizb long standing strategy is to backstab the army and instigate a confrontation between Israel and the Lebanese army just like in 2006... the more death the more destruction the better Hizb aim is served... all using Aoun as a cover-up while Hizb leads Lebanon to isolation and economic ruin, gradually swallowing the country and its institutions, and sacrificing our freedom and democracy to the benefit of the Iranian's Bazij and their regional ambitions. Does anyone doubt that if Imam Saddr was alive he would have been the greatest supporter of the Iranian Green Revolution. Shame on fake Berri for not standing up to Imam Saddr legacy but being subservient to Hizb radicalism.
31 August 2017, 19:14
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قال زعيم #ميليشيات_حزب_الله اللبناني، حسن نصر الله، في خطاب له، إنه سافر إلى #دمشق للاجتماع مع رئيس النظام السوري #بشار_الأسد.
وأضاف #نصر_الله أنه بحث في لقائه إجلاء عناصر #تنظيم_داعش من الحدود اللبنانية.
31 August 2017, 19:22
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so why was the terrorist demanding the Lebanese government request the assistance of the syrian regime and coordinate with it if he had already done that himself through a 'personal' visit?
31 August 2017, 19:30
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The Iranian mercenaries cannot stomach a win for the Lebanese army. After the Nahr el Bared victory they concocted the events of Mar Mikhael when their rioting thugs attempt to take the weapons off the Lebanon soldiers backfired. The attack on the Lebanese army was coupled with a wholesale coordinated live misinformation campaign, on the Iranian mercenaries' medias, about LF snipers on rooftops. Turns out Ahmad Hamzeh, the Amal official who's shooting spurred the riots, was shot from the Dahieh side.
31 August 2017, 19:33
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Golden equation? What a lie! More than half the country is against you!!!!
Biggest lie ever.
31 August 2017, 19:35
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No Sir you are NOT Lebanese. Your loyalty goes 100% to Iran. You do NOT belong to our country. In fact you are destroying it.
31 August 2017, 19:42
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النائب محمد رعد : “الخضوع لمنطق المقايضة والمبادلة يسقط الهيبة عن الدولة والمؤسسة العسكرية فهذا أمر لا يمكن أن يتلقاه عاقل”…
31 August 2017, 19:46
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The filthy iranian should keep his mouth shut out of respect for the families of the slain soldiers instead of boasting empty victory when he was the main reason these soldiers are dead today.
31 August 2017, 20:04
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19:29قائد عسكري أميركي: قافلة "داعش" التي انطلقت من القلمون الغربي باتجاه دير الزور عادت أدراجها إلى مناطق خاضعة للنظام السوري.
31 August 2017, 20:37
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Nasrallah: We call on the state to devise a plan and take a sovereign decision to liberate the Shebaa Farms and the Kfarshouba Hills.
But you have been telling us since God knows when it was your job to liberate shabaa farms and that is why you are keeping your criminal arms; or is it your job to conduct Iran's wars in every part of the Arab world except liberate Shebaa Farms.
31 August 2017, 21:10
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Let us not hide behind of finger and let us accept that Hizbalballa will never ever disarm peacefully and Nussralla is a master of deceit. Unfortunately, there is only one solution and that is by force/civil war.
01 September 2017, 07:14
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Nasrallah Hails Aoun's Border Op Decision, Says 'Golden Equation' Vital Even if Army Gets Stronger
Does aoun or the aounis still remember what they signed in their doomed MOU with the terror group? Was there a golden equation in that MOU?
01 September 2017, 07:16
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Nassrallah: President Michel Aoun, the man whom I always described a brave, independent leader who does not bow or submit to any state, embassy, pressures or intimidation.
but he does hide in embassies, right?
01 September 2017, 07:38
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وقال نصر الله العام الماضي، ما حرفيته إن “الانتصار العراقي الحقيقي هو أن تضرب داعش وأن يعتقل قادتها ومقاتلوها ويزج بهم في السجون ويحاكموا محاكمة عادلة، لا أن يفتح لهم الطريق إلى سورية، لأن وجودهم في سورية سيشكل خطراً كبيراً على العراق قبل كل شيء”.
