Nasrallah Welcomes Suleiman's Dialogue Call: 100 Indictments Won't Change a Thing
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah stressed Tuesday that his party “will overcome the conspiracy of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and emerge stronger than before.”
“A resistance movement that was not shaken by the most powerful air force in the region will not be shaken by (STL Prosecutor Danielle) Bellemare, (Pre-Trial Judge Daniel) Fransen, (STL President Antonio) Cassese or some mercenary writers,” Nasrallah said.
“The same as the major hopes you had pinned on the July (2006) war had gone in vain, the feeble hopes you are pinning on the new conspiracy of the so-called STL will go in vain and a hundred indictments will not change a thing,” Hizbullah number one added via video-link during a graduation ceremony.
On a separate note, Nasrallah welcomed President Michel Suleiman’s recent call for national dialogue. “We support any call for dialogue and rapprochement and we don’t have any reservations over the principle (of dialogue), regardless of the topics and the agenda.”
Nasrallah noted that Hizbullah was “the first party to present its defense strategy at the national dialogue table (in 2006), and after a few days we implemented this strategy and achieved victory in the July war.”
President Suleiman has called for dialogue aimed at “immunizing the country.” The March 14 forces, Hizbullah’s political rivals, have insisted that the dialogue agenda should be limited to a sole item – the controversial issue of Hizbullah’s weapons.
Former premier Saad Hariri has also voiced rejection of any dialogue that does not tackle the issue of Hizbullah’s arms as its sole topic.
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