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Nasrallah says Lebanon front to remain active as long as there's war in Gaza

by Naharnet Newsdesk 05 April 2024, 16:40
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Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday warned that Israel “will regret it if it launches any war on Lebanon,” stressing that Hezbollah is “fully prepared for any war.”

“If they want war, they are welcome, and the Israelis know what war with Lebanon means,” Nasrallah said in an annual speech marking Quds Day.

“We have not used the main weapons nor the main forces and we have not called in the reserves,” Nasrallah noted, pointing out that Hezbollah “does not fear a war … but has so far managed its battle according to a vision and a strategy.”

“Our stance regarding the Lebanese front has not changed: when the war stops in Gaza it will stop here,” Nasrallah said.

“Lebanon's front will remain active and this is settled, seeing as it is linked to the Gaza front,” he stated.

Adding that “the axis of resistance is heading to a historic and major victory,” Nasrallah said Iran’s response to the deadly strike on its consulate in Damascus will “inevitably” come.

“Everyone must prepare themselves, arrange their matters and be careful when the Iranian side responds to the targeting of the Iranian consulate and to the Zionist enemy's possible response to the Iranian response,” Nasrallah said.

He also described the Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus as “a pivotal incident that will have consequences.”

“The martyr Mohammad Reza Zahedi lived with us for long years and made huge services to the resistance in Lebanon,” Nasrallah said, referring to the top Iranian Revolutionary Guard general who was killed in the Israeli strike.

“The martyr Mohammad Reza Zahedi played a historic role in our path,” Nasrallah said.

Monday's strike in the Syrian capital leveled the five-story consular annex of the Iranian embassy and killed seven Iranian Revolutionary Guards, two of them generals.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said Israel "will be punished" for the consulate strike.

Israel has not commented on the strike, but analysts saw it as an escalation of its campaign against Iran and its regional proxies that runs the risk of triggering a wider war beyond the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza Strip.

Israel said Thursday it was strengthening its defenses and pausing leave for combat units following Iran's threats to retaliate.

Timeline
  • 05 April 2024, 18:18

    Nasrallah: The enemy will regret it if it launches any war on Lebanon.

  • 05 April 2024, 17:52

    Nasrallah: If they want war, they are welcome, and the Israelis know what war with Lebanon means.

  • 05 April 2024, 17:51

    Nasrallah: The resistance in Lebanon is fully prepared for any war.

  • 05 April 2024, 17:50

    Nasrallah: We have not used the main weapons nor the main forces and we have not called in the reserves.

  • 05 April 2024, 17:49

    Nasrallah: This resistance in Lebanon does not fear a war and is not scared of a war, but has so far managed its battle according to a vision and a strategy.

  • 05 April 2024, 17:44

    Nasrallah: Our stance regarding the Lebanese front has not changed: when the war stops in Gaza it will stop here.

  • 05 April 2024, 17:43

    Nasrallah: Everyone must prepare themselves, arrange their matters and be careful when the Iranian side responds to the targeting of the Iranian consulate and to the Zionist enemy's possible response to the Iranian response.

  • 05 April 2024, 17:38

    Nasrallah: The Iranian response to the Damascus strike will certainly come.

  • 05 April 2024, 17:36

    Nasrallah: The axis of resistance is heading to a historic and major victory.

  • 05 April 2024, 17:28

    Nasrallah: Lebanon's front will remain active and this is settled, seeing as it is linked to the Gaza front.

  • 05 April 2024, 17:21

    Nasrallah: After six months of war, Netanyahu and the Israelis have no next-day plan.

  • 05 April 2024, 17:18

    Nasrallah: Netanyahu will fail to achieve the declared goals.

  • 05 April 2024, 17:18

    Nasrallah said Israel's possible invasion of Rafah cannot change the equations.

  • 05 April 2024, 17:15

    Nasrallah: The brutal war on Gaza is being waged by people who have lost their minds and are seeking vengeance.

  • 05 April 2024, 17:14

    Nasrallah: The Flood of al-Aqsa has put Israel's existence in danger and exposed its vulnerabilities.

  • 05 April 2024, 17:08

    Nasrallah: Those who should be ashamed are the ones who have normalized ties with Israel.

  • 05 April 2024, 17:08

    Nasrallah: We pride ourselves in the relation and alliance with Iran.

  • 05 April 2024, 17:05

    Nasrallah: The Americans strongly want direct negotiations with the Iranians, but Iran has so far refused direct negotiations.

  • 05 April 2024, 16:50

    Nasrallah: Israel's attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus is a pivotal incident that will have consequences.

  • 05 April 2024, 16:43

    Nasrallah: The martyr Mohammad Reza Zahedi lived with us for long years and made huge services to the resistance in Lebanon.

  • 05 April 2024, 16:42

    Nasrallah on Iranian consulate strike: The martyr Mohammad Reza Zahedi played a historic role in our path.

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Comments 5
Missing HellAndWaite 05 April 2024, 18:58

Well then let's all hurry-up and declare victory in Gaza, so we all can agree that the end of this round has been reached. That should enable Lebanon to get back to dealing with our own problems. Mikati should be a good mouthpiece for that, right?

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Thumb gebran_sons 05 April 2024, 21:39

Nassralah is foreign agent head of Iran's Foreign Legion. Hizbollah is a criminal organization occupying Lebanon via its useful idiots, transforming best Arab nation into another miserable Houthi garbage dump & Iranian rocket base. Hamas is a terrorist taliban organization sacrificing its people for power & riches. Netanyahu is a war criminal that depends on Hizb & Hamas to stay in power. For 18 years Gebran Sons shouted Nassarallah & Netanyahu are 2 sides of the same coin depending on each other for survival. The world had enough of this EVIL TRILOGY: Hizb, Hamas & Netanyahu; responsible for Palestinians misery & preventing 2-state solution that is also the of end Iran’s vulture rules. Our army must have courage to disarm Hizbollah & Hamas, put their leaders in prison & confiscate their looted properties to compensate their victims; in exchange the world community put Netanyahu in prison and proceed with 2-state solution with integrated economies as was almost signed in 2000.

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Thumb Mystic 05 April 2024, 23:22

Sayed Hassan and the Resistance are the Sharaf of Lebanon.
Inshallah victorious and Al Quds will be free.

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Missing phillipo 06 April 2024, 10:04

So, in plain simple English, what he is saying is that he couldn't care less what the elected Government of the Republic of Lebanon think or says. He regards himself and his organisation as a separate territory as far as Lebanon is concerned, so he should not be surprised when Israel attacks his territory.

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Thumb farsical.resistance 06 April 2024, 15:10

"..'victory'.."
"Nasrallah, senior Hamas and PIJ leaders talk of achieving 'victory'.." hassin Oct 25, 2023
"resilience and patience will achieve certain 'victory'.." hassin 03 November 2023
"The Axis of Resistance achieved 'victory' in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Gaza and Yemen." hassin Jan 3, 2024
"What we are seeking is 'victory'.." hassin 30 March 2024
"the axis of resistance is heading to a historic and major 'victory'.." hassin 05 April 2024

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Inigo Montoya 1987

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