Hizbullah believes US pressure on Syria and Iran will not be translated into military action and is only a tool for pressuring those opposed to US designs in the region.
The political adviser to Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, Hajj Hussein Khalil, told The Daily Star in an interview, published on Tuesday, that the US pressure was “nothing new.”
“The aim of this threat is to pressure Syria into change its position concerning the results of the war,” Khalil said. “But Syria would not agree to this.”
Khalil argued that the US could not do anything to Syria even if it refused to cooperate. “If America was able to cause Hizbullah, Syria and Iran to evaporate, it wouldn’t have stopped from doing so,” he said.
He also ruled out the possibility that the United States would set Israel loose on Syria. “This would only expand the size of the US quagmire. And if the area of attack is expanded, then the size of the retaliation would increase,” he said.
As for threats against Hizbullah, Khalil also dismissed them as “an illusion.” “If they’re scared that Hizbullah might become a model for other people, well it’s true, they should be fearful,” he said. (Albawaba.com)
