Nasrallah: Zionist Regime, U.S. Still Pursuing ‘Nile to Euphrates’ Dream

BEIRUT (Kayhan Intl.) – Leader of Lebanon Hezbollah resistance movement Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says that the Zionist regime and the U.S. are seeking to expand the occupied territories to the Nile on the one end and to the Euphrates on the other.
"The axis is still seeking to realize the dream of the Nile to the Euphrates”, Nasrallah said during a televised address.
Nasrallah added that the two countries use "sectarian and religious plots” in order to "paint” regional conflicts as "sectarian” ones and thus achieve their goals.
"Israel is heading towards decline and disintegration like its master,” Nasrallah said, referring to the traditional American-Israeli alliance.
On the Saudi-led war on Yemen, Nasrallah said contrary to what Saudi Arabia sought to portray at the beginning of the military campaign, the conflict has nothing to do with "Shias and Sunnis.”
"The war is rather guided by the United States’ goals and its plots for the region,” he added.
He said there was a "media war” underway against Yemen’s defenders to cast them as the party that rejects any cessation of the war and Riyadh as the one that seeks the campaign’s termination.
Saudi Arabia led its allies into the war in 2015 to restore power to its favorite officials in Yemen, but they have hit a dead end in the face of the Yemeni army’s successful defense campaign, which has left Riyadh and its partners bogged down in the country.
The resistance movement’s leader also insisted that any potential truce has to be accompanied by a cessation of the siege, as required by Sana’a.
They are, thus, seeking to keep up their pressure on Yemen in order to force it to the negotiating table, he stated. "The invading forces are trying to realize what they could not realize through war by means of social pressure.”
However, the Yemenis "have the upper hand” and cannot be duped into ending their defense of the country, Nasrallah asserted and advised Riyadh "not to waste your time. Dishonesty will not have any benefit for year. Just go ahead and end the war and the siege.”
The regional resistance front has been through the toughest stage of its history over the past decade given the developments that targeted in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq as well as the U.S.’s intense sanctions against Iran, Nasrallah said.
"The resistance axis is seriously pursuing increasing of its capabilities…. It is these capabilities that will determine the fate of [any] future warfare,” he added.