Hezbollah chief downplays US sanctions on Iran

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protest against Iran regimeThe leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah movement said Tuesday that U.S. sanctions against Iran and his Iran-backed group will not have major effects on them and will not lead to regime change in Tehran.

Iran’s regime is struggling to restore calm in the capital, after three days of protests  against the Iranian regime  that rocked central and symbolic areas, including the Bazaar  the parliament. The protests have focused on the economic crisis in Iran and the feeling that the leadership is disconnected from the concerns of average Iranians.
Iran’s regime is struggling to restore calm in the capital, after three days of protests against the Iranian regime that rocked central and symbolic areas, including the Bazaar the parliament. The protests have focused on the economic crisis in Iran and the feeling that the leadership is disconnected from the concerns of average Iranians.

Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech marking the 12th anniversary of the end of the 34-day war with Israel that the Trump administration is “mistaken” by thinking the sanctions will lead to riots in Iran.

Last week the U.S. began restoring sanctions that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, which President Donald Trump withdrew from in May. The administration says the renewed sanctions are meant to pressure Tehran to halt its alleged support for international terrorism, its military activity in the Middle East and its ballistic missile programs.

“Iran has been facing sanctions since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979,” Nasrallah said. “He (Trump) is strengthening the sanctions but they have been there since 1979 and Iran stayed and will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the victory of its revolution.”

Iran cities hit by anti-government protests
Iran cities hit by anti-government protests

The Hezbollah leader spoke to thousands of supporters gathered at a rally south of Beirut, where they watched his speech on giant screens as it was broadcast from a secret location

Iran has been backing Hezbollah financially and militarily since the militant group was established after Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon.

Speaking about the restoration of the sanctions by the Washington, Nasrallah said: “I can tell you and I have accurate information they are building dreams, strategies and projects that Iran will head toward chaos and the regime will fall. This is illusion, this is imagination and has nothing to do with reality.”

Thousands of residents of the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz formed a human chain by the bank of the Karun River in Ahwaz, the capital of the Khuzestan Province of Iran, protesting the diversion of its river to ethnically Persian areas
Thousands of residents of the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz formed a human chain by the bank of the Karun River in Ahwaz, the capital of the Khuzestan Province of Iran, protesting the diversion of its river to ethnically Persian areas

He added that Hezbollah is not scared of a possible war with Israel.

“No one should threaten us with war and no one should scare us by war,” he said, adding: “We are not scared or worried about war and we are ready for it and we will be victorious.”

ABC

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One response to “Hezbollah chief downplays US sanctions on Iran”

  1. Niemals Avatar

    If the Hezbollah leader need to broadcast his speech from a secret location claiming that U.S. sanctions against Iran and his Iran-backed group will not have major effects on them and will not lead to regime change in Tehran, how come that he is hiding?

    Hassan Nasrallah still marking the 12th anniversary of the end of the 34-day war with Israel, is he afraid that next war with Israel will end with a bigger catastroph for Lebanon.

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