Nasrallah: Syria Has Weathered Crisis
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said the Syrian government no more faces the threat of downfall, and raised the possibility of a “serious political solution” to Syria’s conflicts as the world is gradually adopting a realistic attitude towards the Arab country.
In an interview with al-Ahwaz satellite TV network, the top Lebanese figure said Syria has put the threat of a regime change behind it in light of the internal, regional and international developments.
Allocation of billions of dollars to destroy Syria, delivery of hundreds of tons of weapons and deployment of tens of thousands of militants to Syria from around the world, along with an international and Arab campaign to incite religious strife in Syria to overthrow the Damascus government have all failed, Nasrallah said.
He said the Syrian issue is going through a new process and it seems probable that Syria would be on the path of a “serious political solution”, because the world is gradually adopting a realistic stance towards the Arab country.
Syria has been gripped by civil war since March 2011 with Takfiri terrorists currently controlling parts of it, mostly in the east.
In the past four and half years, more than 240,000 people have died in Syria -overwhelmingly civilians- and around 4 million Syrian people are now refugees in other countries. Around 8 million others have been displaced internally.
Elsewhere in his interview, Nasrallah touched on the Saudi-led military campaign against Yemen, expressing confidence that Saudis will suffer a “crushing defeat” in the war on Yemenis.
Yemen’s resistance against Saudi-led attacks is a “decisive war” for the Yemeni people who seek independence and wants to make decisions without Riyadh’s hegemonic influence, he underlined.
Nasrallah added that Saudi rulers launched a war on Yemen because they could not tolerate a transition of power or independent popular system in their neighborhood.
Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by a Saudi-led coalition since March 26.
Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies began to attack Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
More than 4,000 Yemenis, many of them children and women, have been killed in the aggression against the Arab country so far.