Hassan Nasrallah
The head of the Iranian terror proxy’s executive council warns: “We will decide when to defeat Israel.”
“We’re following up on all gas fields across Palestine,” said Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
“As long as the Lebanese government is hostage to Hezbollah, there’s very little that ... outside countries can do,” say Israeli scholars.
As the Israel Defense Forces prepare for a range of scenarios, Israeli observers assess that Hezbollah’s threats to strike offshore Israeli gas-drilling activities should be seen in a wider context.
In an interview on an Iran-based Arabic-language TV channel, the Hezbollah chief also said that Israeli drone flights over Lebanon have ceased “due to the superiority of Hezbollah’s air defenses.”
What led to the cancellation of a meeting this month between head of Hamas abroad Khaled Mashaal and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah?
A highly religious man, Hassan Nasrallah should be expected to follow through on the orders of the Iranian “mothership,” which is not only the source of Hezbollah’s radical Shi’ite Islamist ideology, but also its funding and force build-up.
Hassan Nasrallah claims to have 100,000 fighters, but vows they won’ t be drawn into a civil war.
The IDF Northern Command assessed that Hezbollah possesses as many as 150 thousand rockets and missiles at various ranges.
Jonathan Spyer tells JNS, “What is happening in Lebanon is what happens when a country allows itself to be taken over by a franchise of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, with all the corruption and eventual collapse and impoverishment which follows.”
In his first televised address since the “coughing speech,” Hassan Nasrallah said he hoped to pray in Jerusalem with his followers.
“The Israelis must understand that breaching Al-Aqsa mosque and sanctuaries won’t stop at Gaza resistance,” says Hassan Nasrallah.
