US soldiers, officers will go home in
coffins after Soleimani assassination:
Nasrallah
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The secretary general of the Lebanese
resistance movement Hezbollah has severely
condemned the assassination of Lt. Gen.
Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the
Islamic Revolution Guards Corps' Quds Force,
and Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units' deputy
commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, say that
US soldiers and officers would return home
in coffins in retaliation.
“When the coffins of American soldiers and
officers begin to be transported ... to the
United States, (President Donald) Trump and
his administration will realize that they
have really lost the region and will lose
the elections,” Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said
in a televised speech broadcast live from
the Lebanese capital city of Beirut as he
addressed his supporters on Sunday evening.
Marwa Haidar
Stressing there is no figure equivalent to
General Qassem Suleimani in terms of
retaliation; Hezbollah Secretary General
Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said the response to
his blood must be the expulsion of US forces
from the region.
In
a memorial service for General Suleimani,
Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis and other martyrs who
fell in the US strike on Baghdad airport
early Friday (January 3, 2020), Sayyed
Nasrallah said the US will get out of the
region humiliated.
“The minimal retaliation to assassination of
General Suleimani is to liberate Iraq from
US forces,” his eminence addressed crowds at
Sayyed Shuhadaa Complex in Beirut’s southern
suburb, Dahiyeh.
He
stressed that when this goal is achieved
then the liberation of Palestine and Al-Quds
will be imminent.
Sayyed Nasrallah affirmed, meanwhile, that
fair punishment of General Suleimani killers
means that US forces, warships and bases
must pay the price.
“We
are neither angered nor afraid, but we
consider that there is a chance to get rid
of the US occupation and hegemony.”
Assassination and Martyrdom
Sayyed Nasrallah paid tribute to General
Suleimani as a worldwide great Islamic
commander, stressing that the date of his
assassination, alongside Iraq’s Hashd Shaabi
Deputy Commander Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis,
represents a new stage not only for Iran and
Iraq but for the entire region.
He
also praised Al-Muhandis as a “dear and
great commander.”
“Suleimani has achieved his personal goal.
Embracing martyrdom was his wish since he
was young… In the last years he spent many
nights weeping while remembering martyrs as
he was missing them.”
His
eminence offered condolences to the families
and relatives of the two commanders.
“Martyrdom is one of two glorious things.
It’s either victory or martyrdom. The day of
martyrdom of General Suleimani and
Al-Muhandis is another sample of victory of
blood over sword. In the school of Imam
Hussein (a.s) and Sayyeda Zeinab (a.s.) we
adore martyrdom and we don’t see but
beauty.”
Hezbollah S.G. then elaborated what happened
early Friday, saying that General Suleimani
left Lebanon for Damascus on Thursday and
then to Baghdad, where he was received by
Al-Muhandis.
As
they rode the cars they were brutally
targeted by US precise missiles that led to
total destruction of the vehicles, Sayyed
Nasrallah said, noting that all people in
the cars turned into body parts that were
hard to be identified.
Few
hours, Pentagon claimed responsibility for
the strike, and US President Donald Trump
himself said that he ordered the attack,
Sayyed Nasrallah added.
“We
are before a clear crime and not a
mysterious one, something which indicates
two things: The first is that all previous
attempts to covertly assassinate General
Suleimani have failed, and the second is
related to conditions our region has been
witnessing especially in Iraq.”
Trump’s Foreign Policy a Failure
“We
are before a clear crime and not a
mysterious one, something which indicates
two things: The first is that all previous
attempts to covertly assassinate General
Suleimani have failed, and the second is
related to conditions our region has been
witnessing especially in Iraq.”
Sayyed Nasrallah then talked about failure
of Trump’s foreign policy, noting that the
US President is confused as his term nears
its end.
“Throughout three years of his
administration Trump has failed to reach the
goals he set at the beginning of his term.
All forms of pressure by Trump have failed
to subdue Iran.”
“All what he wanted is to get Iran into
negotiation table. And now his term will end
without achieving this goal.”
“In
Syria, there is a clear confusion, the
latest of which is abandoning Trump’s allies
(the Kurds). In addition to the unclear
decision, whether he wants to withdraw
troops or redeploy them in a bid to protect
oil fields there.”
“In
Lebanon, and despite all money spent in a
bid to distort the Resistance image” the US
administration failed to dictate its
conditions on the country.
He
noted, meanwhile that the same thing applies
in Yemen, Afghanistan and Palestine, Sayyed
Nasrallah added.
Iraq
and Attempts to Create Strife with Iran
“He
(Trump) is so transparent since he is
arrogant and doesn’t recognize international
community. He repeatedly said that the US
wants to take over the Iraqi oil. And when
he was asked about the state in Iraq he used
to say there was no state there.”
He
added that Washington used the Takfiri
group, ISIL, as a pretext to return to Iraq
and reestablish bases there.
This scheme has been foiled as ISIL was
defeated, Sayyed Nasrallah said, underlining
the major role played by General Suleimani
and Al-Muhandis in confronting the terrorist
group.
“After ISIL defeat, national Iraqi factions
won the parliamentary elections and a new
government was formed by Mr. Adel Abdul
Mahdi, and they refused to be part of the
anti-Iran campaign, as it also refused the
‘deal of the century’. Therefore the
Americans felt that they would lose Iraq.”
Sayyed Nasrallah added that Washington then
tried to sue discord between Iraq and Iran
and to drag Iraq into civil war.
Hezbollah S.G. also talked about US
administration failure in Venezuela, Cuba
and North Korea.
“In
his new election campaign all what he talks
about are the $400 Billion he took from
Saudi Arabia, arms deals with Arab states
which worth tens of billions of dollars, and
transferring the US embassy from Tel Aviv
into Al-Quds (Jerusalem).”
Suleimani Central Figure in Axis of
Resistance
Returning to assassination of General
Suleimani, Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that
the US strike which killed the top Iranian
commander is not isolated incident and
represents the beginning of a new approach
adopted by Trump administration.
“They (Trump administration) settled on
assassinating Suleiman who is a central
figure in the Axis of Resistance,” Sayyed
Nasrallah said, noting that he warned the
Iranian general of attempts to kill him.
Sayyed Nasrallah underlined the major role
played by General Suleimani across the
region countries from Palestine to Lebanon,
Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan, noting
that he has posed an existential threat to
the Zionist entity.
“Israel considers Suleimani as the most
dangerous man. But it couldn’t dare to kill
him. So it resorted to the US to do so.”
Retaliation
The
retaliation for the assassination of
Suleimani has already started in both Iran
and Iraq, Sayyed Nasrallah said.
“The US goal behind assassinating Suleimani
was to terrify Iran and subdue it. However
the confrontation has already started since
Imam Khamenei’s speech in which the Supreme
Leader vowed severe revenge.”
Meanwhile, in Iraq the US was hoping to
create atmosphere of fear and strife with
Iran, Sayyed Nasrallah said, noting that tis
goal was foiled as the Iraqis took to
streets and held joint funeral for both
Iraqi and Iranian martyrs.
In
this context, Sayyed Nasrallah said that now
there are calls in Iraq for US withdrawal,
noting that the eyes are now on the Iraqi
parliament. He hoped that the Iraqi
parliament will approve a bill to get the US
troops out of the Arab country.
The
minimal retaliation for assassination of
General Suleimani and Al-Muhandis is to
expel foreign forces from Iraq and liberate
it from US troops.” Sayyed Nasrallah said.
His
eminence noted, meanwhile, that the
responsibility of the Axisi of Resistance
now is “to go forward in face of US goals to
terrify us, and to coordinate between each
other and come closer in a bid to strengthen
our capabilities.”
“Suleimani is not only an Iranian figure. He
is all of the Axisi if Resistance:
Palestine, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria,
Afghanistan and every country which has
Resistance supporters.”
“Iran can retaliate as it pleases, but this
doesn’t exempt the Axis of Resistance from
retaliation on its behalf,” Sayyed Nasrallah
said, stressing that such retaliation is not
at the request of the Islamic Republic.
“Fair
Punishment”
Referring to the word “fair punishment”
Sayyed Nasrallah had earlier used in his
statement shortly after the martyrdom of the
two commanders, his eminence stressed that
there is no equivalent figure to General
Suleimani.
“Suleimani’s shoe is worth more than Trump’s
head. Fair punishment means that US forces,
bases and warships must pay the price.”
In
this context, Sayyed Nasrallah noted that US
civilians must not be targeted because such
move serves the interests of Trump.
“The US forces will leave our region
humiliated, defeated and terrified. The
martyrs who blew themselves up and forced
the US troops out of the region in the past,
are now many more.”
“Avenging Suleimani and Al-Muhandis must be
through the expulsion of all US forces from
our region. When we accomplish this goal,
then we don’t need a battle to liberate
Palestine, and the Zionist will pack their
bags and leave.”
“If
the people of our region head in this
direction… When US coffins come back to
their country… When the US officers who came
to the region vertically will return back
horizontally, at that time, Trump and his
administration will realize that they lost
the region and lost the elections.
Those idiots don’t know
what did they do!”
“The fair punishment in sake of Suleimani
will also be a fair punishment in sake of
Imad Mughniyeh, Mustafa Badriddine, Abu
Mahdi Al-Muhandis and all other martyrs.”
At
the end of his speech, Sayyed Nasrallah
reiterated that he is happy for General
Suleimani because he fulfilled his wish of
martyrdom, noting that “we are neither
angry, nor afraid, but we consider his blood
an opportunity to expel the US from the
region.”
“O
most honorable people… We will continue the
path and triumph at last,” his eminence
concluded his speech.
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