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Hezbollah engaged in fighting ISIL in Iraq, Nasrallah says
The secretary general of Hezbollah says the Lebanese Islamic resistance movement has been fighting the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group in Iraq.
According to Press TV, Nasrallah said on Monday in a speech delivered in commemoration of Hezbollah’s martyrs, Sheikh Ragheb Harb, Sayyed Abbas al-Mousawi and Hajj Imad Moughhnieh, in Sayyed al-Shuhadaa Complex in Dahiyeh, located in the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut “We may not have spoken about Iraq before, but we have a limited presence because of the sensitive phase that Iraq is going through.”
The Iraqi army along with volunteer forces and tribesmen are fighting against the ISIL terrorist group which currently controls large areas of Iraq and Syria. The group sent its terrorists into Iraq in June 2014, seizing large parts of land straddling the border between Syria and Iraq.
Fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement have been backing the Syrian army in the fight against the Takfiri terrorists operating inside Syria.
Nasrallah said “I call for those who are urging us to withdraw from Syria to join us in our fight in Syria. Let's go to Iraq and everywhere to face off this threat because this is the right way to defend Lebanon.”
Nasrallah further criticized Jordan’s double standards in the fight against terrorism, saying that all terrorist groups follow the same mentality.
He said "Jordan cannot fight ISIL in Iraq and support al-Nusra in Syria, terrorist groups are all faces of the same coin."
