Nasrallah: Zionist-American axis still harboring ‘Nile to Euphrates’ dream

The secretary-general of Lebanon’s resistance movement of Hezbollah says the Zionist-American axis is still seeking to realize its dream of stretching the areas under the Israeli regime’s occupation from the Nile to the Euphrates.

“The axis is still seeking to realize the dream of the Nile to the Euphrates,” Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said during a televised address on Wednesday.

According to Press TV, the occupying regime claimed existence in a hugely Western-supported and -favored war in 1948 by seizing huge expanses of regional territories. It overran other vast swathes of territory in another such war in 1967.

Later, the regime and its Zionist supporters around the world were widely reported to be seeking to expand the territories under its occupation to such a sheer extent that would cover some of the areas lying between the two rivers.

Nasrallah said the axis uses “sectarian and religious plots” as a weapon. He said the Zionists and Americans are deploying the weapon by trying to paint a “sectarian tone” over regional conflicts.

‘Saudi war on Yemen guided by US plots for region’

Referring to the war on Yemen, Nasrallah said contrary to what Saudi Arabia sought to portray at the beginning of the military campaign, the conflict has nothing to do with “Shias and Sunnis.”

The Hezbollah chief was referring to the main Islamic religious strands and attempts at sowing division between the two.

“The war is rather guided by the United States’ goals and its plots for the region,” Nasrallah said.

He said there was a “media war” underway against Yemen’s defenders to cast them as the party that rejects any cessation of the war and Riyadh as the one that seeks the campaign’s termination.

Saudi Arabia led its allies into the war in 2015 to restore power to its favorite officials in Yemen, but they have hit a dead end in the face of the Yemeni army's successful defense campaign, which has left Riyadh and its partners bogged down in the country. 

In recent weeks, Yemen’s defense forces have managed to retake many areas from the coalition in the west-central Province of Ma’rib. Saudi Arabia and its allied Western government’s media outlets are, at the same time claiming that Sana’a is rejecting Riyadh’s peace proposal.

‘US, Israel heading towards disintegration’

Nasrallah then turned to the issue of the United States and its attitude towards Iran under the new US administration.

He described the United States’ alleged “insistence on diplomacy” towards Iran under the new administration as “not something that has resulted from moral generosity on the part of Washington, but rather a result of Iran’s increasing power.”

The US is not like how it used to be, he said. “It is in the twilight stage,” a reality already emphasized by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

“Israel is heading towards decline and disintegration like its master,” Nasrallah said, referring to the traditional American-Israeli alliance.

Nasrallah again invited all to contemplate the issue of “the US’s decline” as explained by Ayatollah Khamenei. “The US’s path is one of decline and downfall, and the resistance’s path is one of ascendance.”

Iran did not concede to the US under former President Donald Trump’s sanction-powered “maximum pressure” campaign, and it would never yield to Washington now that the Islamic Republic is on the verge of putting the sanctions behind either,” he added.

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