Trump’s Threats Won’t Scare Syria or Resistance Movements: Nasrallah

BEIRUT-Secretary General of Hizbollah resistance movement Hassan Nasrallah has stressed that US President Donald Trump’s threats of attacking Syria won’t scare Syria or Iran or Russia or any of the region’s peoples and resistance movements.

In a televised speech on Friday, Nasrallah said the region is witnessing a sensitive stage in the light of all developments targeting Syria and having its impacts on the entire region.

 “Trump’s threats come out from an irrational president. We all condemn the use of chemical weapons anywhere in the world, but what took place in Syria’s Douma was a mere play and a pretext. I assure everybody that there was no use of chemical weapons there,” Nasrallah said, according to al-Manar TV website.

 He wondered “why would the victorious use such weapon? this is contrary to logic and reason.”

“We are before a new phase where the US president has assigned himself an investigator, prosecutor, judge and executioner,” Hizbollah leader said. He added that “Trump is passive, ill-considered and all he thinks of is money, stating that Trump is a tradesman and his speech is centered on deals and dollars. “He is a businessman. He has a mentality of a businessman… He wanted to withdraw the US troops from Syria but in a week he now wants to attack it.”

“Trump deals with the US army as mercenaries who fight for money,” referring to the US president’s speech in which he addressed Saudi Arabia by saying the US army will only remain in Syria if the Saudi pays,” al-Manar reported.

“The US and the whole world shall know that all these Trump Hollywood tweets won’t scare us,” Nasrallah said. “The US administration must know that its war on the region will not be a war against regimes, its fight will not be with armies as much as it will be with the peoples of the region,” he indicated, adding that in all the battles the “US fought with the armies, they were victorious or defeated, but in all its battles with the peoples they were defeated.” “US has been defeated in all its wars from Vietnam to Iraq, while resistance front has made major gains,” he pointed out.

T-4 Attack Put ‘Israel’ in Direct Combat with Iran

Elsewhere in his remarks, Nasrallah stressed that ‘Israel’ has committed a historic mistake and a great folly by striking Syria’s T-4 airport, which brought it into direct combat with Iran.

 “This is the first time in 7 years that the Israelis have deliberately killed Iranian revolutionary guards. Attacking T-4 airport is a pivotal incident in the history of the region that can’t be ignored,” he said.

Seven Iranian personnel were martyred in Monday’s strike, he clarified.

“Iran is not a weak or a cowardly state, and you know that well,” Nasrallah said to the Israelis, adding that “the Israelis have false calculations and they will have to face the Islamic Republic of Iran.” He affirmed that the incident was pivotal and after this attack would be different from any time before.

Hezbollah leader pointed out that all the thousands of terrorists in Syria do not concern the Israelis while they have every kind of weapons, however, they are afraid of just few revolutionary guards there.

Hamda Mustafa