Nasrallah: US Not in a Hurry to Eliminate Daesh

 BEIRUT, (ST)- Hizbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has stressed that the United States is not in a hurry to eliminate Daesh, because, for the Americans, the mission of this takfiri terrorist organization has not been finished yet and it must continue as long as possible.

In a speech during the commemoration ceremony of two Hezbollah martyrs, Nasrallah said the battle against Daesh won’t end until the terror group is completely destroyed and has no existence, pointing out that the United States is the party which prevents and delays the battle with Daesh because the terror group’s mission in exhausting the region’s countries and destroying its armies has not finished yet for the Americans.

He went on to say that Daesh presence in Syria and Iraq has retreated, clarifying that if Daesh stays in the Badia of Deir Ezzor, Boukmakl, al-Mayadeen, east of the Euphrates and at the Syrian-Iraqi borders, it will try to extend again, so there is no way except to uproot it and end its existence.

 He noted the clear US changeable goals as regards fighting Daesh extremist organization in Raqqa on the one hand and in eastern Euphrates area and the rest of Deir Ezzor on the other.

Recent Information affirm that the American warplanes prevent the Syrian army and its allies from advancing towards Daesh-held areas in the Syrian Badia and Deir Ezzor.

Nasrallah went on to say that the United States wanted the battle against Daesh in Iraq to last for 10 or 20 years in order to blackmail the Iraqis, establish military bases and sell arms, but the Iraqis’ determination to get rid of terrorism helped defeat terrorists there.

He added that the US has done the same with Lebanon by putting  pressure on the Lebanese state and army as to prevent them from launching the battle against the terror group.

He pointed out that the American-Saudi scheme in the region has failed in Syria and Iraq and it will fail in Yemen.  

He stressed that the achieved victory on terrorists was the result of sacrifices in the confrontation of terrorism which has been supported by several countries, including Saudi Arabia, with thousands of tonnes of arms and ammunitions as well as with tens of billions of dollars and with a political, media and diplomatic propaganda, as acknowledged by the former US Vice President Joe Biden.

Nasrallah reiterated that the new American sanctions on Hizbollah won’t change the party’s stance on confronting the American hegemony in the region.

On the call by the Saudi minister Thamer al-Sabhan’s call for an international coalition against Hizbollah is a clear acknowledgment on the strength of Hizbollah and the disability of the Saudi regime to face the resistance party except through an international coalition.

“Saudi’s Al-Sabhan wants an international coalition against Hezbollah because he knows that Saudi rulers can’t do anything with it, said Nasrallah, stressing that Hezbollah is one of the factors that secures regional peace, which is threatened by Saudi, Israel and the US behind them. He affirmed that the resistance axis is much stronger nowadays.

Nasrallah made it clear that the problem of the US with Iran was not its nuclear file, but Iran’s essential role in bringing down the Saudi-US scheme in the region.

On Lebanon, Nasrallah warned that “the hand that will extend to Lebanon will be cut off and the conspirators are doomed to fail.”

Hamda Mustafa