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| Hezbollah not to aid Iran if US strikes |
| 2006-05-23 |
| Lebanon’s Hezbollah, a close ally of Iran, would not jump to Tehran’s defence if the US launched a strike against its nuclear programme but would step in if the conflict spread to Lebanon, its deputy chief said yesterday. Sheikh Naim Kassem said that the guerrilla group, which was established by Iran in the early 1980s but has since grown into a political party with 14 seats in parliament, had no plans to get involved in regional battles. “Hezbollah is not a tool of Iran, it is a Lebanese project that implements the demands of Lebanese,” Kassem said in an interview in the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburb of Beirut. “Iran is a big country with real capabilities and can defend itself if it is exposed to American danger.” Western diplomats and Middle East analysts say that any attack on Iran would almost certainly increase tensions between Hezbollah and its foe Israel. Kassem said it was hard to predict how any conflict would play out and that decisions would be made according to the situation on the ground, but that in principle Hizbollah would only intervene to defend Lebanon, primarily from Israeli attack. Kassem painted another scenario in which Israel fired first to preempt any possible Hezbollah action if fellow Shi’ite Muslim Iran was attacked. “Hezbollah has no decision to enter any battle related to the region and has said repeatedly that its position is one of defence against aggression,” he added. “But we cannot say to Israel, which might attack Lebanon one of these days, that we are going to sit back and watch, even if Israel called this attack a protective measure for fear that Iran might benefit from the situation in Lebanon... Such pretexts are rejected.” |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #5 I doubt Hezbollah or any other armed radical group have to do anything - its a given that MadMoud and the Mullahocracy want aymmetric, PC People's War or War of National Resistance in case of any invasion by Amer-Alied milfors. The ultimate ace for Iran and the other Rogues, besides SIno-Russian anti-US mil interventionism, are the anti-Amer Americans already within the Amer NPE and MSM. For the time being Iran needs to keep up the PDeniable facade that Iranian-suppor covert terror groups are fighting legit "Wars of Resistance" against decadent American-Western invaders and imperialists ["crusaders"], as opposed to Iran-centric/domin Regional-Global Caliphate. THE CHICOMS/COMMIES "WAR/BATTLE/LOCAL ZONE" ANTI-US STRATEGY > [NUCLEARIZED] TAKE-AND-HOLD > HEZBOLLAH, etal. ARE ALREADY IN-PLACE IN LEBANON AND AROUND ME. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-05-23 21:13 |
| #4 Hizb'Allah is just as much an enemy as Iran. They are a client of Iran. They need to be hunted down and taken out as much as the MMs need to be. There are 241 Marines who were killed in 1983 by a suicide bomb in Lebanon that demand some justice. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2006-05-23 09:49 |
| #3 At least they are teachable. Decided they didn't like their spies and sleepers in the U.S. hunted down. Well, too little, too late. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-05-23 08:40 |
| #2 Sounds like the green light to me. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-05-23 08:02 |
| #1 What he is really saying is if the US goes after Iran, they are toast and the Hezbollah don't want to be the next on the list. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-05-23 08:01 |