BEIRUT: The leader of Lebanese guerrilla movement Hezbollah said yesterday his group would stay in the Syrian war “to the end of the road” and bring victory to its ally President Bashar Al Assad.
Hassan Nasrallah, head of the militant Shia group, said in a televised speech that Syria and Lebanon were facing a threat from radical Sunni Islamists, which he argued was a plot devised by the United States and its allies to serve Israel’s interests in the region.
“We will not rely on anyone ... like all the battles before this one: We will be its people, its men, and we will be the ones who bring it victory,” he said, speaking from an undisclosed location.
“We will continue to the end of the road, we accept this responsibility and will accept all sacrifices and expected consequences of this position,” he said in the televised footage, which showed thousands of cheering people watching him on big screens in the Lebanese town of Mashgara.
Assad comes from the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia. He has been bankrolled by regional power Iran and now increasingly by Hezbollah, Tehran’s Lebanese proxy which was founded as a resistance movement to Israel.Reuters
