Lebanon NOW: Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday evening saluted uprisings across the Arab world while dismissing the March 14 coalition’s campaign against non-state weapons.
In a televised speech, Nasrallah praised revolutionaries and protesters in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, and Yemen for their “faith and high spirituality.â€
He rejected claims that the uprisings are US-manufactured, saying such talk is an injustice to these peoples and unreasonable because their regimes are US allies.
He also condemned embattled Libyan strongman Moammar Qaddafi for his alleged kidnapping of Amal Movement founder Imam Moussa Sadr in 1978, saying, “we are looking forward to the day when Sadr can be liberated from this dictatorial tyrant.â€
Calling events in Bahrain a “special injusticeâ€, Nasrallah asked whether Arab silence about the repression of protests there is due to sectarian prejudice against the Shia-majority opposition.
He also dismissed the March 14 alliance’s recent campaign against non-state weapons as unworthy of serious discussion, saying that the fact that the campaign had not provoked armed clashes meant that “no one has a gun to their head.â€
Reassuring his audience that Hezbollah’s weapons are aimed at Israel and that “there is nothing to worry about,†Nasrallah repeated his accusation that some March 14 figures asked that Israel lengthen its war on Lebanon in July 2006 to further their political goals and said that Hezbollah is preparing a lawsuit against some of them.
He also accused March 14 of obstructing cabinet formation by calling for a technocratic government, adding that Hezbollah will continue to work with Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati.
Popular protests have swept the Arab world in recent months, starting with the ouster of presidents in Tunisia and Egypt. The UN has approved international military intervention to protect Libyan rebels against Qaddafi’s regime and protests have been violently repressed in Bahrain, Yemen, and elsewhere.
The March 14 alliance has launched a campaign against non-state weapons following the collapse of Saad Hariri’s unity government in January. March 14 figures have repeatedly said that the threat of Hezbollah’s weapons helped secure the parliamentary majority for Mikati’s nomination to the premiership.
I wonder if he will salute the uprising in Syria too?
And where was he to salute the uprising in Iran? Weren’t his own Soldiers of Allah part of the groups who were beating the Iranian Protesters?
This guy is a joke. His mentality and Political Ideology is in direct contradiction with what these uprising are about. Just like American hypocracy who support one uprising and reject another one (Libya v. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Jordan]) he is picking sides. Yet, unlike Americans, he actually took part in defusing, arresting, oppressing, and beating Iranian Protesters in streets of Iran.
He simply sees another opportunity to push his own agenda. Oh well, this is Middle East Politics.
Every country and every person is selective. You, for example, advocate freedom for Iran while you actively served in the Israeli Occupation Forces to resist freedom in Palestine. You have less credibility to talk than anyone bc you didn’t merely talk against freedom, you acted against it. And we have proof that you served against freedom in Palestine, while your proof of Nasrallah sending troops to fight for the gov’t is just rumors spread by little ideological liars like yourself.
Nasrallah was one of the few leaders in the region that came out in support of the Egyptian protests BEFORE Mubarak left, which of course means that his credibility has likely shot up even more than before in Egypt. Enjoy.
I love your mentality, you make it personal in order to win an argument. yet lets address your stupid resonse in a personal level to put you to shame.
I, advocate freedom for Iran, because I have a personal interest in Iran. I still have many relatives in Iran. They are close relative of mine. My family, my relatives, and many of my friends lived in Iran and were victims of horrible treatment of minorities in Iran. Yes, you are right, I do have an interest in free Iran. The reason is very simple: if Iran is truely free, it will not act as the barbarians as they are acting today. That is because I have personal standing with regards to the situation in Iran. Is that clear enought for you? Or would you like to win every argument with the same stupid respond of “occupying soldier”?!?
As for proof for Nasrallah sending troops: I believe there were pictures of known Hizbollah agents working side by side of the units who were beating people and arresting Iranian citizens. There are countless testimonies of people saying the thugs in plain clothings were speaking Arab. So ARE THEY ALL LYING? ARE ISRAELI AGENTS? ALL ISRAELI SPIES MAKING TO FALSE TESTIMONIES?! What type of proof would you need? 💡 Again, people like you who look up to this group (Hizbollah) hate Israel more than you love your own country. That is why you fail to accept it.
And of course, you failed to address the main issue: WHY DIDN’T NASRALLAH CONDEMN THE IRANIAN MOVEMENT?
Nasrallah Selection HAS/HAD nothing to do freedom. Don’t B.S anybody here. He hated Egypt because of peace treaty with Israel. That’s all. Therefore this argument of Before or after Mubarak is nothing but a joke.
Stop lying about your personal interest in Iran. Everyone who knows you knows that the only reason you oppose the gov’t is bc you see the world from the prism of your murderous Zionist ideology. If Iran was a tyranny that was in bed w Zionism, you’d defend it left and right so please, save it.
I did address your point as to why Nasrallah condemned crackdowns elsewhere but not Iran, he was clearly being selection, remember? This is when I highlighted your own selectivity, as in, you support “freedom” in Iran while you actively fought against it in Palestine. I used your own personal history to help explain the issue of selectivity.
As for the so-called Arabs shooting Iranian protesters, I’d like to bring your attention to Dr. Hamid Dabashi’s article that answers your one-dimensional brain:
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/03/201139125740275442.html