BEIRUT – Secretary General of Hezbollah said late Tuesday that U.S. sanctions against Iran and Lebanon's resistance movement will not have major effects on them and will not lead to regime change in Tehran.
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech marking the 12th anniversary of the end of the 34-day war with the occupying regime of Israel that the Trump administration is "mistaken" by thinking the sanctions will lead to riots in Iran.
Last week the U.S. began restoring sanctions that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, which President Donald Trump withdrew from in May.
"Iran has been facing sanctions since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979," Nasrallah said. "He (Trump) is strengthening the sanctions but they have been there since 1979 and Iran stayed and will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the victory of its revolution."
The Hezbollah chief spoke to thousands of Lebanese gathered at a rally south of Beirut, where they watched his speech on giant screens.
Speaking about the restoration of the sanctions by the Washington, Nasrallah said: "I can tell you and I have accurate information they are building dreams, strategies and projects that Iran will head toward chaos and the establishment will fall. This is illusion, this is imagination and has nothing to do with reality."
He added that Hezbollah is not scared of a possible war with the Zionist regime of Israel.
"No one should threaten us with war and no one should scare us by war," he said, adding: "We are not scared or worried about war and we are ready for it and we will be victorious."
Nasrallah said, "Hezbollah might not be the strongest army in the Middle East but it is certainly stronger than the Israeli army because we have more faith in our cause and greater willingness to sacrifice.”
"The resistance in Lebanon — with its arms, personnel, expertise and capabilities — is stronger than ever,” he added.
Nasrallah also said Israel would fail to force Hezbollah away from the Syrian Golan, where the Zionists regime fears the resistance movement will set up bases to use for attacks against the occupying regime, and has pushed for Russia to enforce a buffer zone.
"The Israeli enemy, which has been defeated in Syria, is insolently seeking to impose its conditions in Syria, but this will not happen,” he said.
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