Alwaght- Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, says the Al Saud regime has failed to achieve any goal in its brutal military aggression against the Yemeni nation.
“Tell me about a single objective that has been achieved. Has Saudi Arabia restored the so-called legitimacy in Yemen? Has it managed to prevent the expansion of the Yemeni army and popular committees? Has it confiscated the arms of Ansarullah? Has it been able to return [former fugitive Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh] Mansur Hadi to his country?” Nasrallah asked in a televised address on the latest developments in the region on Tuesday.
Riyadh launched its military aggression against its southern neighbor on March 26 - without a United Nations mandate - in a bid to undermine Yemen’s Ansarullah movement and to restore power to Hadi, a staunch ally of Saudis.
The Hezbollah chief rejected the lies said by Riyadh regime that claims victory in the war on Yemen, asking, “Do Arab citizens accept such deception and misinformation? As an Arab citizen I want information about the objectives that were allegedly realized.”
He also considered the claim by Saudis that they reached all goals in Yemen operation as the biggest lie.
He further said the Saudi kingdom seeks to gain dominance over Yemen by launching a bloody war on the neighboring nation, saying, “Have they managed to achieve their real objective by restoring their hegemony over Yemen?”
He lauded Yemeni people’s resistance against the Saudi aggression, saying Riyadh could not weaken the Yemenis.
“We are before a clear and obvious Saudi failure and a clear Yemeni victory. This is the result of the firmness and steadfastness of the Yemenis,” the Hezbollah chief said.
“The launch of Operation Renewal of Hope was an attempt to cover up for the failure of the first round of the war against Yemen,” he stressed.
He further criticized Saudi Arabia and its backers in the aggression against Yemen for their hypocrisy in the war and blocking humanitarian aid to the Yemeni people.
“They claimed that they want to fight terrorism but they are offering arms to al-Qaeda and bombing the popular committees to prevent them from reaching the regions where al-Qaida is operating. They have prevented any humanitarian aid from reaching Yemen,” he stressed.
Nasrallah added that the main reason behind the assault on Yemen is “that Saudi Arabia is seeking hegemony.”
He further praised the victories by Yemeni people, calling on the international community to step up efforts to help the Yemenis.
“The world has a responsibility to confront this aggression's repercussions at the humanitarian level,” the Hezbollah chief added, condemning Saudi Arabia’s bombing of Yemeni and destroying the infrastructure of the country.
On April 21, Riyadh announced the end of the first phase of its military operation, but airstrikes have continued with Saudi bombers targeting different areas across the country in a new phase.
The Saudis claim the airstrikes only target military positions. However, reports show civilians and infrastructure in civilian areas are being attacked. Recent reports also show Saudis have used cluster munitions in the northern province of Sa’ada.
The attacks have so far killed over 1,200 Yemenis, including many women and children, and injured thousands of others.
Riyadh declared the end of “Decisive Storm” operation against Yemen and announced the beginning of a new phase dubbed “Operation Restoring Hope.”
Iraq
Hezbollah chief further referred to the developments in Iraq, saying the US is seeking to split Iraq under the pretext of fighting the ISIS Takfiri group.
“After ISIS seized control of Mosul and started threatening the rest of the provinces and the region, a US-led international coalition was formed to fight it. Back then we said that the US is not serious in fighting ISIS and that it would utilize the threat of the ISIS in the region to realize its own scheme for the region. We said that the US has a scheme to fragment these regions on sectarian and ethnic basis -- Arabs, Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites,” Nasrallah added.
Nowadays, the Americans have revealed their true intentions through their attempt to bestow legitimacy on the fragmentation of Iraq, and this is what the US Congress is trying to do, he noted.
The draft of a US annual defense bill, which was released on April 27 by the House Armed Services Committee, urges the US government to recognize separate Kurdish and Sunni states and provide them with at least 25 percent of the USD-715-million aid money allegedly planned to be given to the Iraqi government to help it fight the ISIS terrorist group.
The draft bill also says the figure could even amount to 60 percent of the money, about 429 million dollars.
Qalamoun Barrens
Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah asserted that Hezbollah will move to face the terrorist threat in Qalamoun barrens regardless of the Lebanese consensus which has never been available during the resistance's battles against the enemy.
"If we had waited for the national consensus to face the terrorists, the Takfiri groups would have reached many of the Lebanese areas," said Hezbollah’s leader.
Sayyed Nasrallah added that the terrorist threat is represented by occupying Lebanese territories in Arsal, attacking the Lebanese Army, assaulting the Lebanese civilians, kidnapping the Lebanese soldiers as well as threatening their parents to kill them, and bombarding the whole area in Bekaa, adding that the state is clearly unable to assume its responsibilities and that Hezbollah is ready to support it if it does.
Sayyed Nasrallah pointed out that the battle and all its details will be announced when it starts and that Hezbollah will not issue any statement in this regard.
Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that Hezbollah will defeat the terrorist groups in the upcoming battle though it has never revealed its details, noting that the battlefield developments in the other Syrian provinces do not affect Qalamoun's confrontation.
Sayyed Nasrallah pointed out to the Syrian people saying, “We stand by you, and we will be where we must be.”
On the Syrian developments, Sayyed Nasrallah said that a psychological warfare has recently been launched, spreading the rumors which aim at weakening the determination, will and steadfastness of the Syrians and at attaining what a 4-year global war on Syria has failed to reach.
"We must not care for those rumors which have been spread since the beginning of the Syrian crisis."
Refuting the rumors, Sayyed Nasrallah emphasized that Iran will never abandon its allies, including Syria, despite the nuclear talks.
Hezbollah leader called on examining what happened in Jisr al-Shoghour, which was controlled by the terrorist groups few days ago, from a militarily point of view, considering that losing a battle does not mean losing the war.
"The Syrian state and army are strong and they are able to change the battlefield conditions," Sayyed Nasrallah said, "The Syrians must be sure that Hezbollah will always support them and that he will be where he must be to defend Syria and all the Ummah.
