Nasrallah Urges Ouster of U.S. Forces from Region over Soleimani Killing

by Naharnet Newsdesk 05 January 2020, 15:02

Nasrallah: Fair Response to Soleimani Killing is Ouster of U.S. Forces from Region

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday said that the response to the assassination of Iran’s top general Qassem Soleimani should be nothing short of the ouster of all U.S. forces from the region.

“We are not scared or angry and we see a chance to get rid of hegemony and occupation,” Nasrallah said in a televised address during a rally that Hizbullah held in Beirut’s southern suburbs to commemorate Soleimani, Iraqi paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and their companions, who were killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq on Thursday night.

“A fair punishment for the sake of Qassem Soleimani is a fair punishment for the sake of Imad Mughniyeh, Abbas al-Moussawi, Mustafa Badreddine and all the martyrs of this nation,” Nasrallah said, mentioning the names of slain Hizbullah leaders.

“The ignorant Trump and the fools around him do not realize what they have done. Days will tell them,” Nasrallah added.

“When the coffins of U.S. soldiers and officers start returning to the United States, the Trump administration will realize that it has lost the region and the elections,” he said.

“The fair punishment is the removal of U.S. military presence from the region,” Nasrallah noted.

He said the U.S. army “killed these people and it will pay the price.”

“We do not at all mean the American people and citizens across our region,” Nasrallah noted.

He warned that any harm against U.S. civilians anywhere “would serve Trump's policies.”

“It is up to anyone from the axis of resistance to deliver a fair punishment after Soleimani’s assassination and Iran will not request anything from its allies and friends,” he pointed out.

Noting that if the U.S. forces “get expelled from the region, the liberation of Jerusalem will become attainable,” Hizbullah’s leader added that Israel’s enemies might not need to start a battle to achieve that.

“The Israelis will pack their clothes and leave,” he suggested.

He added: “There is a responsibility on the shoulders of the axis of resistance to retaliate… Qassem Soleimani is not a purely Iranian affair, Qassem Soleimani concerns Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan and every country.”

Addressing Iraqis, Nasrallah said U.S. forces must be expelled and “Iraq must be liberated.”

“The honorable Iraqi resistance fighters will not allow a single American soldier to remain in Iraq” should parliamentary action fail to oblige the U.S.-led forces to leave, Nasrallah suggested.

“We hope the Iraqi parliament will approve a law calling for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq,” Nasrallah said.

Iraq’s parliament approved the bill later in the day.

Separately, Nasrallah revealed that he had met with Soleimani in Lebanon a week prior to the deadly U.S. strike that killed the Iranian commander.

“I warned him that there was talk about him in the U.S. media and told him that that was a precursor to his assassination. He laughed and shrugged off the possibility,” Nasrallah said.

“This was not a separate assassination operation. This is the start of a new U.S. war in the region,” Nasrallah noted.

He also said that “a new era and a new history” started in the region after Soleimani’s assassination.

Separately, he revealed that U.S. envoy David Satterfield had “threatened Lebanese officials” during a recent visit to Lebanon, asking them to “remove resistance installations from the Bekaa and giving them a 15-day deadline.”

“He threatened that Israel would launch strikes” but warnings launched by Hizbullah foiled the scheme, Nasrallah said.

“America failed in Lebanon. All the sanctions, incitement and funds did not achieve anything,” he added.

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05 January 2020, 16:33
Nasrallah: We are not scared or angry and we see a chance to get rid of hegemony and occupation.
05 January 2020, 16:32
Nasrallah: A fair punishment for the sake of Qassem Soleimani is a fair punishment for the sake of Imad Mughniyeh, Abbas al-Moussawi, Mustafa Badreddine and all the martyrs of this nation.
05 January 2020, 16:31
Nasrallah: The ignorant Trump and the fools around him do not realize what they have done. Days will tell them.
05 January 2020, 16:30
Nasrallah: If the US forces get expelled from the region, the liberation of Jerusalem will become attainable. We might not need a battle with Israel; the Israelis will pack their clothes and leave.
05 January 2020, 16:28
Nasrallah: When the coffins of US soldiers and officers start returning to the United States, the Trump administration will realize that it has lost the region and the elections.
05 January 2020, 16:25
Nasrallah: The blood of martyrs will not go in vain and we will emerge victorious in the end.
05 January 2020, 16:17
Nasrallah: If this type of assassination goes unpunished, the region will be violated by the Americans and the Israelis.
05 January 2020, 16:16
Nasrallah: Any harm against U.S. civilians anywhere would serve Trump's policies.
05 January 2020, 16:16
Nasrallah: The U.S. army killed these people and it will pay the price. We do not at all mean the American people and citizens across our region.
05 January 2020, 16:15
Nasrallah: The fair punishment is the removal of U.S. military presence from the region.
05 January 2020, 16:14
Nasrallah: It is up to anyone from the axis of resistance to deliver a fair punishment after Soleimani’s assassination and Iran will not request anything from its allies and friends.
05 January 2020, 16:11
Nasrallah: There is a responsibility on the shoulders of the axis of resistance to retaliate.
05 January 2020, 16:10
Nasrallah: Qassem Soleimani is not a purely Iranian affair, Qassem Soleimani concerns Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan and every country.
05 January 2020, 16:10
Nasrallah: There should be a fair punishment against those who committed the crime.
05 January 2020, 16:03
Nasrallah: U.S. forces must be expelled and Iraq must be liberated.
05 January 2020, 16:03
Nasrallah: The honorable Iraqi resistance fighters will not allow the a single American soldier to remain in Iraq.
05 January 2020, 16:02
Nasrallah: We hope the Iraqi parliament will approve a law calling for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.
05 January 2020, 16:00
Nasrallah: The Iraqi response has also started. It started with the joint funerals of the Iranian and Iraqi martyrs in Iraq.
05 January 2020, 15:58
Nasrallah: Trump sought to intimidate and subjugate Iran... but the response has started in Iran, with the statements of the supreme leader and the other Iranian officials.
05 January 2020, 15:56
Nasrallah: The confrontation against the crime started from the very first night.
05 January 2020, 15:54
Nasrallah: They hope this assassination will weaken the axis of resistance and the situation in Iraq.
05 January 2020, 15:50
Nasrallah: I warned him that there was talk about him in the U.S. media and told him that that was a precursor to his assassination.
05 January 2020, 15:49
Nasrallah: Hajj Qassem Soleimani visited me a week prior to his assassination.
05 January 2020, 15:48
Nasrallah: They sought to target a central figure in the axis of resistance.
05 January 2020, 15:47
Nasrallah: They are seeking to change the equations and weaken the axis of resistance.
05 January 2020, 15:47
Nasrallah: This was not a separate assassination operation. This is the start of a new U.S. war in the region.
05 January 2020, 15:30
Nasrallah: Satterfield threatened Lebanese officials and asked them to remove resistance installations from the Bekaa, giving them a 15-day deadline and threatening Israeli strikes.
05 January 2020, 15:29
Nasrallah: America failed in Lebanon. All the sanctions, incitement and funds did not achieve anything.
05 January 2020, 15:24
Nasrallah: Trump had nothing to offer to the American people at the level of foreign policy.
05 January 2020, 15:23
Nasrallah: The situations in our region, the failures and achievements and the latest developments in Iraq as well as the upcoming U.S. elections are the context of Soleimani's assassination.
05 January 2020, 15:20
Nasrallah: Several attempts to assassinate Hajj Qassem were foiled in the past.
05 January 2020, 15:19
Nasrallah: This is not an ambiguous assassination... This is a blatant and clear crime. Trump ordered the U.S. army to carry out this crime.
05 January 2020, 15:18
Nasrallah: The reasons that Trump mentioned for Soleimani's killing are all lies.
05 January 2020, 15:17
Nasrallah on Soleimani: His head and hands were cut off like Imam Hussein and Imam Abbas and his body was torn apart.
05 January 2020, 15:17
Nasrallah: A brutal airstrike targeted them and advanced weapons were used.
05 January 2020, 15:16
Nasrallah: Hajj Qassem Soleimani and his companions publicly traveled from Damascus airport to Baghdad airport.
05 January 2020, 15:13
Nasrallah: We do not get defeated... Even when we get martyred we triumph.
05 January 2020, 15:08
Nasrallah on Soleimani: His "personal project" was martyrdom.
05 January 2020, 15:08
Nasrallah: Hajj Qassem Soleimani achieved his goal on Thursday evening, which is martyrdom.
05 January 2020, 15:06
Nasrallah: A new era has started in the region.
05 January 2020, 15:06
Nasrallah: We also commemorate Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and their Iranian and Iraqi companions.
05 January 2020, 15:05
Nasrallah: Today we commemorate and honor a great and global Islamic leader, Hajj Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force.

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Comments 24

EagleDawn 05 January 2020, 15:10

The day this evil iranian sectarian terrorist is brutally and violently murdered is the day we celebrate our true independence.

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ex-fpm 06 January 2020, 08:01

Nasrallah: It is up to anyone from the axis of resistance to deliver a fair punishment after Soleimani’s assassination and Iran will not request anything from its allies and friends.

Nasrallah: There is a responsibility on the shoulders of the axis of resistance to retaliate.

Did this Iranian get the approval of the Lebanese government or people to shoulder the responsibility of such retaliation?

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barrymore 05 January 2020, 15:17

15:10
نصرالله: سليماني كان يبكي ويقول ان صدره اشتد في هذه الدنيا لأنه يشعر بالشوق لله والشهداء

... and Skeletor granted him his wishes. Good Riddance

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lubnani.masi7i 05 January 2020, 15:20

yes at the right time and place.... maybe not in your filthy lifetime.

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lubnani.masi7i 05 January 2020, 15:22

Nasrallah on Soleimani: His head and hands were cut off like Imam Hussein and Imam Abbas and his body was torn apart.

Hopefully you will meet the same fate.

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janoubi 05 January 2020, 15:43

lool

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galaxy 05 January 2020, 15:26

What revenge? The only revenge that you know ya heretic is some soft targets like killing women and children. Let's see you ya irani go up against the U.S military. So, stfu and go ride your moped and chant "shia shia shia".

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galaxy 05 January 2020, 15:27

This filthy iranian terrorist has nothing to do except talk about Iran while the Lebanese population is at the starvation level all because of his illegal weapons and control of Lebanon.

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marcus 05 January 2020, 16:10

Nasrallah: U.S. forces must be expelled and Iraq must be liberated.

This @POS should mind his own iranian business and stop interfering in other countries affairs.

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farsical.resistance 05 January 2020, 16:33

Are you guys watching this. The scene is so touching. Thousands of sycophants chanting and shaking their fists in a choreography recommencement of a North Korean rally, while Nasrallah speechifys remotely on a big screen from his hiding place in the sewers. A nice touche, above his right shoulder a picture of the martyr Suleimani with his boyfriend. Speaking of which. Nasrallah keeps peddling the triumphs of martyrdom sending thousands of poor impressionable brainwashed young men to their death while he "heroically" hides in the sewers. File this under do as I say not as I do.

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doodle-dude 05 January 2020, 16:38

I do I do, here it is:

Sayyed Hassan Nassrallah
69 blablablablablabla deep and wide luv tunnel Boulevard
Dahieh - Beirut Southern Suburbs

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un520 05 January 2020, 17:08

I am cheering for Iran to make an attempt to revenge Qassem, because I would dearly like to know which 52 Iranian targets Trump has singeled out.

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samiam 05 January 2020, 18:48

and here we go again....

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fadi_albeiruti 05 January 2020, 18:52

I dont see that cockroach on your avatar yet, make room slave lots more are coming

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Marc 05 January 2020, 19:02

No one would win the war, eventually Americans would leave and then they celebrate نصر الهي

Lives will be lost and infrastructure in the Middle East destroyed!

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CODE.961 05 January 2020, 20:30

We are not scared said the man hiding for almost a decade and a half.

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warrior 05 January 2020, 23:32

Nasrallah: We are not scared or angry

Of course you're not!

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cedars 05 January 2020, 23:47

Americans soldiers are foreigners but the Iranians are not foreigners in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq?

Why these few hundred soldiers scare you but you have thousands of militia men.

Did you retaliate for the assisination of Bachir Gemayel the president of the country you lived in? It was OK for the Syrian to assisinate Rene Mouawad too?

Go back and live in Iran you filthy terrorist.

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warrior 06 January 2020, 06:31

Love the way you justify your frustrations:) Do you ya heretic understand the word treason when you mention 'Iraqi nationals and although they have accepted funding and training from other nation (Iran)'? I guess not coz for your filthy shias being servants for Iran is an honor.

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warrior 06 January 2020, 06:36

'It has carried out its military campaigns under the auspices of Lebanon national Government'

and were its terrorist military operations/campaigns approved by the Lebanese government it is part of ya irani? Are you aware the Lebanese government claims it has a dissociation policy of non-interference ya irani?

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cedars 06 January 2020, 14:03

Hizbollah is a state within a state. That's is illegal and not legit in any country in the world. The type of arms they hide and carry supersede the state army. They are not expressing their 2nd amendment with registered guns under the state law, they have from another foreign country arms that equate the state army, in other words they can take over the state anytime they wish but then they would loose because a super power like America will totally eliminate them and send them for good to Iran. Why? They prefer to hide behind the government to induce their cancer nationally and internationally. In other words play the militia war...because an army cannot face another army, it would be win or loose for one of them. Loose in their case to face Israel or America.

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abou_ziz 06 January 2020, 01:52

Iranian regime is in total panic with Trump unpredictability.
In 6 months their economy will collapse as their cash reserve are melting and they wont be able to pay the civil servants.

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