Meqdad Slams Nasrallah's Speech, Considers it 'Evasive'

The Free Syrian Army's Political and Media Coordinator, Louay Meqdad, lashed out on Thursday at Hizbullah's chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, considering his latest speech as “elusive.”

“Nasralla's threats of intervening along with Iran to safeguard the Syrian regime is a direct confession that the regime (of Bashar Assad) began collapsing,” Meqdad said in comments to the Kuwaiti al-Rai newspaper.

He called on Nasrallah to announce the accurate number of his party's fighters who were killed in Syria, the location of their death and the battles they were killed in.

Meqdad said that Hizbullah and Iran are running the field battles in Syria as “they know that the Assad fell.”

On Tuesday evening, Nasrallah acknowledged that members of his group are fighting inside Syria and suggested Iran and other states could intervene to support the Syrian regime against rebel fighters.

President Bashar Assad has "true friends in the region who will not allow Syria to fall into the hands of the United States, Israel and 'takfiri' groups," he said.

"If the situation gets more dangerous, states, resistance movements and other forces will be obliged to intervene effectively in the confrontation on the ground," he added.

"You will not be able to bring down the regime militarily," Nasrallah told Syria's rebel forces. "The battle is still long."

Meqdad denied Hizbullah chief's claims that the Lebanese in the Syrian town of al-Qusayr were assaulted.

“These claims are baseless and not true,” the FSA official said, accusing Hizbullah of dragging “the region to strife and Syria to a holocaust as a sacrifice to Assad.”

‪”We won't leave the Lebanese in Qusayr's countryside vulnerable to attacks and we will not hesitate to help them‬,” Nasrallah said explaining his party’s involvement in the Syrian conflict.

He also announced that Hizbullah fighters are defending holy places in the Syria, in particular, the Sayyeda Zainab shrine.

Meqdad rejected Nasrallah's claims, saying: “Sayyeda Zainab's shrine is an Islamic holy place and not for Hizbullah... He has no right to pretend to be protecting it.”

The FSA spokesman demanded Hizbullah to withdraw from Damascus immediately.

On Wednesday, Syria's opposition denounced what it called "threats" from Nasrallah, and warned the party against any intervention by it or by Iran in the Syrian conflict.