From the Liveblog of
Saturday, November 11, 2023
Hezbollah leader hails Iranian support for ‘resistance’
Gianluca Pacchiani is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah hails Iranian support for his Lebanese terror organization and other so-called “resistance” groups that oppose Israel and the United States.
“Iran is the power we need to thank for supporting Islamic ‘resistance’ movements in the region,” Nasrallah says.
“The Islamic Republic has supported us financially, materially, diplomatically and militarily,” he continues. “We need to praise the late Qassem Suleimani [former commander of the expeditionary Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps], who did not spare military nor financial support for all of our movements, despite the threats.”
“Today, the Iraqi ‘resistance’ attacks US forces, the US blames Iran. If Hezbollah attacks Israel, the US blames Iran.”
He asserts, “the Islamic Republic of Iran does not decide in place of the ‘resistance’ movements, but it supports them.”
Nasrallah also comments on continued Hezbollah attacks on Israel since his speech last weekend.
“Last week saw an improvement in operations, both quantitively and qualitatively. For instance, we deployed the Bourkane missile carrying a payload between 300 kilograms and 500 kilograms. Imagine half a ton of explosives falling on the enemy’s head,” Nasrallah says.
“We also improved in terms of depth of reach, deploying drones and Katyusha rockets.”
According to Nasrallah, “there are other operations that we have not revealed, such as surveillance drones into occupied Palestine, especially over Haifa.”
“Some of these drones return with images, others do not, but they exhaust the Iron Dome and Patriot missiles of the enemy,” he says.
The Times of Israel Community.