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| Nasrallah: We Want President Who Won't 'Stab Resistance' |
| 2014-05-26 |
| [An Nahar] Hizbullah ... Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... said Sunday his party does not want a president who would "stab the resistance in the back," accusing the March 14 camp of seeking an extension of President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... 's term through fielding a "confrontational candidate" to block the election of a "serious nominee." "We are before a very important and critical period that has started today," said Nasrallah, a day after Suleiman left the Baabda Palace upon the end of his six-year tenure, which witnessed a war of words with Hizbullah in recent months over the so-called army-people-resistance equation. "Some parties are used to launching accusations of obstruction but the issue cannot be tackled through rumors and accusations," Nasrallah added in a televised speech marking the Resistance That'd be the Hezbullies, natch... and Liberation Day, referring to allegations that the Hizbullah-led March 8 forces ... the opposition to the Mar. 14th movement, consisting of Hizbullah and its allies, so-called in commemoration of their Mar. 8th, 2006 demonstration of strength in Beirut ... was behind impeding the election of a new president. The Hizbullah leader called for dealing with the vacancy period "calmly and without any tension" even if it is a "grave situation, as some parties have said." |
| Posted by:Fred |