'Israel wants Assad out to harm resistance'

Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, says Tel Aviv seeks government change in Syria in order to undermine the resistance front against the Zionist regime.

Zionist regime prefers the ISIL Takfiri terrorists and al-Qaeda militants to the Syrian government, Nasrallah said in a televised address to the Lebanese nation on Tuesday, the Martyr Leaders Day.

He said the government of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad poses a danger to the interests of the Israeli regime.

Zionist regime agrees with Saudi Arabia and Turkey that any solution to the crisis in Syria must not prolong the existence of the government in Damascus, Nasrallah said.

He added that Israel prefers the partition of Syria to a political settlement of the crisis in the Arab country.

Nasrallah rejected claims that the Syrian government will finally bow to pressures for the disintegration of the Arab country, saying Syrian forces are present everywhere across Syria, meaning that the government will not allow such partitioning and the “national will” is clearly against that.

He also slammed Turkey and Saudi Arabia for their active support of the terrorists in Syria, saying they have failed in their plots against the government of Assad.

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