Nasrallah in Televised Address on Latest Developments

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a televised address commemorating the birth of the Prophet Mohammed tuesday: There are contacts aimed at resolving the crisis and there will not be a new government because the current one is providing political stability and security. We have enough resources to be able to defend Lebanon and its dignity and we don’t need any sort of trade, whether lawful or impermissible. There have been reports about Hizbullah-operated drug cartels in Latin America. First of all, drugs are haram (impermissible in Islam), and second the Islamic state of Iran has been financially supporting us to the fullest. It is true that in 1982 we had made speeches calling for the rise of an Islamic state in Lebanon, but some leaders who are preaching coexistence today had been calling for partition and federalism back then. Yes, we talked about that back then, but we studied the situations and when we do something we do it for the benefit of the Muslims and the Christians in this country. Even in Lebanon they repeated this silly rhetoric about the presence of a Shiite expansion because of political rivalry. They have claimed that there is a major campaign to propagate Shiism in Syria and that President Assad was supporting this movement, adding that six million Syrians have converted to Shiism so far. We asked them where are those who had converted? … We met with the officials there and I asked a security official to conduct a survey. He did not even find 1,000 Shiites, there were individual cases and people who get affected by the events, but there was nothing called Shiite expansion. The notion of Shiite expansion is baseless but some people have been promoting it. After the war, they resorted to something more dangerous: sectarian strife. They also invented “the Iranian expansion and the Shiite expansion,” which is the backbone of the “soft war” the West is waging against the Ummah. War was imposed on the nascent republic of Iran because it had toppled the U.S.-backed Shah regime. They backed a Shiite because they didn’t care about the sect, but rather about the political approach. An eight-year, Arab-backed war was waged on Iran and some Arab countries deprived the Palestinian people and the resistance movements of billions in money which were spent on funding a war against a fledgling Islamic state raising the banner of Jerusalem. The hegemony of the major world powers over oil, gas and the holy sites is fragmenting the Ummah, and should the Ummah unite that would mean that it has reclaimed its sovereignty and wealth -- something the arrogant powers will not tolerate. One must know how to build a stance and must verify the information without falling a prey to lies and rumors which are being launched today by the mightiest and most important institutes of public opinion in the world, and this is the most dangerous aspect to any war that may be waged. He added : We’re witnessing a bizarre period in journalism, as they are attributing unfounded stances to certain leaders and fabricating events that never happened.