A senior Hezbollah official says the United States was directly involved in the aggression against Lebanon and Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination, stressing that Washington has ramped up intelligence operations against Hezbollah tenfold over the past 25 years but the resistance movement remain resolute and remains capable of striking occupiers.
Head of Hezbollah’s Resources and Borders File, Nawaf al-Moussawi, made the remarks in an interview with Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television network on Monday, emphasizing that the US had a role in the decision and execution of the assassination of Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s secretary general who was killed in an Israeli missile attack in Beirut on September 27 last year.
Moussawi stressed that the types of missiles used to strike the headquarters of Nasrallah in Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighborhood “were not part of Israel’s arsenal and were brought in specifically for this targeted attack.”
The Hezbollah official also noted that the US intelligence operations against Hezbollah since 2000 have increased tenfold compared to those of Israel, stressing that American intelligence program “serves Israeli interests.”
Elsewhere in his remarks, Moussawi said that Hezbollah had “suffered heavy blows” in its confrontation with the Tel Aviv regime, but stressed that the movement “is not over, nor is the Resistance front.”
The Resistance inflicted significant losses on the Israeli occupation “at the height of the war” and scored achievements during it, he emphasized, citing, as an example, the Caesarea operation, in which a Hezbollah drone reached the residence of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Hezbollah “is capable of delivering strikes to the Israeli occupation if it compensates for its shortcomings,” Moussawi stressed, highlighting that “the amount of shortcomings and gaps is significant.”
The Hezbollah official noted that while the occupying entity claims that it has achieved “success,” there is no evidence for its so-called achievements against the movement.
Moussawi also said that Hezbollah is currently conducting an internal investigation into all security and military events that took place during Israel’s latest war on Lebanon.
Since the onset of the escalation in October 2023, around 4,000 Lebanese, many of them civilians have been killed, and over one million people displaced.
The Israeli escalation featured assassination of several high-ranking Hezbollah leaders, including Nasrallah, and Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, who had been Hezbollah’s Executive Council chief, as well as commanders and fighters.
Nasrallah and Sefieddine were laid to rest in the capital Beirut on February 23 and 24, respectively, amid myriads of mourning Lebanese and foreign supporters.
The Lebanese resistance movement, however, stood up to the aggression with all at its disposal, conducting numerous retaliatory strikes against sensitive and strategic Israeli targets.
Hezbollah has vowed to continue its resistance against Israeli occupation and aggression, despite the losses, which, the movement asserts, only further reinvigorate its resolve to fend off Israeli atrocities.
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