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Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem said on January 26 that any attack on Iran would also target Lebanon, and warned that any new war on its backer would ignite the region.
The United States has been threatening the Islamic Republic since the start of the month over a wave of violent protests, and in recent days it reinforced its forces in the Middle East with an aircraft carrier in addition to many other military assets.
“Faced with aggression that does not distinguish between us… we are targeted by any potential aggression and determined to defend ourselves,” Qassem said in a televised address to supporters at a solidarity rally for the Iranian regime.
“We will choose at that time how to act… but we are not neutral,” he added, warning that “a war on Iran this time will ignite the region.”
Qassem also revealed mediators had told the group the U.S. and Israel were considering hitting Hezbollah in case there was an attack on Iran.
The remarks came just a day after a wave of intense Israeli strikes that hit targets of Hezbollah in several parts of Lebanon.
According to the Israeli military, one of the strikes targeted a group of Hezbollah operatives at a weapon manufacturing site in southern Lebanon, killing one, whom it named as Jawad Basma. In a separate strike in the country’s eastern Beqaa Valley, the military said it struck other military infrastructure of the group.
Another strike killed a Hezbollah artillery commander, Muhammad al-Husseini, who also worked as a school teacher, the Israeli military said.
Earlier this month, the Lebanese military announced that the entire area in southern Lebanon to the south of the Litani River was disarmed according to a government plan approved last year in line with the ceasefire agreement brokered by the United States in November of 2024.
While both Lebanon and Hezbollah have shown commitment to the ceasefire agreement, Israel refuses to halt its strikes, or even to withdraw its troops from several posts inside southern Lebanon.
An large-scale Israeli military operation against Hezbollah, even one involving a ground invasion, is as likely as an attack by the U.S. on Iran, if not more.
Just last week, U.S. President Donald Trump openly suggested that something should be done about Hezbollah, hitting at a military operation.
“Hezbollah in Lebanon, we have to do something about that,” Trump said in remarks at the Davos economic forum on January 22
“But these are, I call them remnants. They’re small remnants compared to what it was before,” he added, referring to Hezbollah.
Taking this into account, Qassem’s warning was not an attempt to drag Lebanon into some war for Iran, but rather an attempt to deter Israel in the hope of avoiding a war. Neither Iran nor Hezbollah will be firing the first shot, but it is clear that both will hit back.
Hezbollah is no longer as capable of striking Israel as before. However, the group could still inflict some serious losses on the Israeli military in a ground battle.
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hezbollah will fight with ghosts, sticks and stones against airstrikes
they’re all secretly funded by western globalists imo. the biggest crime of the last 100 years allegedly
do you have some intrusive thoughts that ain’t yours? ghosts and stuff? talk to your doctor.
hezbollah will also use allaho snackbar chanting, granting them 1000% attack rate but 0% damage. 🤣🤣
yeah, like when all those khazars fled the north, eh? worked pretty well…they still ain’t come back. they don’t even trust their own gov, known liars that they are. not even their god, the shekel, can make them come back. hey, if the cowards flee from chants, so much the better, it saves missiles for their uncle, the orange buffoon.
yeah, so what it has to do with your deranged mental state?
like the vietnamese and afghans.
hezbollah’s remnant, like iran, is playing to the media, both seemingly so incompetent that they are not even aware that they continue to commit the gross strategic blunders that gave israel victory.
you keep pretending that you haven’t been told that israel is part of uks kingdom. that you don’t know that queen elizabeth was crowned queen of israel just as charles is now it’s king, that it has no constitution ie the alleged state of israel doesn’t really legally exist in the same way as every other on earth.
wow, any more israeli ‘victories’ and the entire fake ‘country’ won’t exist. i say keep at it! the best israeli ‘victory’ was when the yemeni killed every last one of 70 idf/us special forces that thought to invade on land. keep ’em coming…hell ain’t half full yet.
its all a lot of deceived people, sadly trusting duplicitous individuals secretly serving the same agenda.
hezbollah has proven their worthlessness.
ive heard that they got new pagers
swallowed great mulatto jizz in detroit last night
now hezbollah is also funded by israel like isis, al queda and hamas? dystopia
the lebanese people have no love of israel, but puppet governments take bribes
time for another big joo hunt.
i think everyone already knows that hezbollah isn’t the problem. the regime which rules isreal is the most blatant and in-your-face problem that ever existed in modern times. if iran is attacked, it is in the interests of all nieghbouring countries to get involved because they too are on the us/isreali menu. it’s a matter of time or a disagreement too far. iran has the means to cripple isreal. the usadmin know it and so does the maniac of tel aviv.