Former MP and Chairman of the National Council for the Removal of Iranian Occupation, Fares Souaid, emphasized that Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah made “a lot of statements about solidarity with Gaza in words but very little in terms of actual actions.”
Speaking on MTV on Friday evening, Souaid said that “he (Hassan Nasrallah) is attempting to distance himself from the October 7 attacks by asserting that Iran was not behind the Al-Aqsa Flood operation.”
“Nasrallah also indicated that Iran does not wish to enter this war unless provoked by the United States,” said Souaid, adding, “I don’t believe it will happen.”
Souaid also noted that “Hezbollah has approached the Palestinian issue from a humanitarian perspective, calling for a ceasefire, but has not mentioned the Palestinians’ political demand, supported by Arab countries, which is the two-state solution.”
Lastly, Souaid criticized the “absence of Lebanon’s and the Lebanese people’s interests” in the speech by the leader of the Shiite militia, “as if he were detached from all the internal pressures within the Lebanese Republic due to the country’s deterioration in the absence of a unified political force capable of confronting him.”
He added, “Today, he may have spoken in Arabic, but he sounded more like an Iranian.”
