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5/1/13

Middle East - Lebanon: Hezbollah pledges to assist Assad in Syria conflict

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Tuesday that his group was ready to take a greater role against the Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad. Hezbollah has in the past supported regime troops operating near the Lebanese border.

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group said Tuesday that Syrian rebels will not be able to defeat President Bashar Assad’s regime militarily, strongly suggesting that Syria’s “real friends” including his Iranian-backed militant group would intervene on the government’s side if the need arises.

The powerful Shiite Muslim group is known to be backing Syrian regime fighters in Shiite villages near the Lebanon border against the mostly Sunni rebels fighting to topple Assad. But the comments by Sheik Hassan Nasrallah were the strongest indication yet that his group was ready to get more substantially involved to rescue Assad’s embattled regime.

“Syria has real friends in the region and in the world who will not allow Syria to fall in the hands of America or Israel or the Takfiris,” he said, referring to followers of an al-Qaida like extremist idology.

Read more: Hezbollah pledges to assist Assad in Syria conflict - SYRIA - FRANCE 24

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