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Hezbollah leader : Egyptians fighting for Arab dignity
TEHRAN,Feb.9(MNA)-- Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Monday that Egyptian protesters demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak were changing the Middle East with their battle for Arab dignity.
“Your movement will entirely change the face of our region for the interest of its own people,” Nasrallah said in a televised address to a conference in Beirut, held to support the popular uprising in Egypt.
“You are going through the battle of Arab dignity, restoring the dignity of Arab people,” he added.
Egypt has been rocked by two weeks of protests demanding Mubarak, who has ruled for 30 years with an iron-fist, step down. Mubarak has refused, claiming his departure would cause chaos in the Arab world’s most populous nation, although he did announce that he would not run for re-election in September.
Nasrallah expressed Hezbollah’s support for the Egyptian and Tunisian people fighting against the dreadful regimes.
What the world is witnessing today is a real and patriotic revolution in Egypt, he noted.
According to Al Manar, Sayyed Nasrallah was speaking through a video link at the end of a rally organized in support of Egypt by a number of Lebanese political parties and figures at Ghobeiry Square, Beirut. The rally was held under the slogans “In support of the Egyptian people's revolution against the Camp David regime” and “In support of Egypt's Arab identity.”
Nasrallah began his speech by offering his apology to the Tunisian and Egyptian people for the delay in this stance of support, which he said was not delayed by hesitation or confusion. “After all our experiences in resistance to the U.S.-Zionist schemes in Lebanon and the region, we cannot stand by idly when a dispute takes place between the oppressed and the oppressor, between the right and the wrong,” Nasrallah stated.
The Hezbollah secretary general noted that the Islamic resistance movement had a painful experience in this regard with the Egyptian regime when one of its members was arrested because he was cooperating with a few Egyptian and Palestinian young men to serve the people of Gaza. “Only one of our brothers was detained because of an operation of a logistic nature to back the resistance in Gaza. Yet, we were accused of having a cell aiming at overthrowing the regime, changing the picture and converting Egyptians to Shias,” he added. “That’s why we chose to delay our stance out of respect of the Egyptian sensitiveness, after taking the same advice from our Egyptian friends.”
According to Nasrallah, the world is witnessing a real, patriotic, and popular Egyptian revolution in which Muslims and Christians are participating as well as various movements. “In this revolution, all Egyptians are taking part, including children, women, men, intellectuals, scholars, workers. But the major and strongest element in this revolution remains the youth generation. That’s why we can say that we’re before a complete revolution.”
Nasrallah also emphasized that this revolution is the product of the people’s will and determination. “The people are the ones protesting, offering martyrs. They are the ones who will decide what they want, which system will prevail, which solution they will adopt,” he said. “All accusations to the revolution of having an outside agenda will fall in front of the will of the courageous people of Egypt.”
“The truth is declared, however, by the protesters themselves through their slogans, blood, smiles… and stances. They obviously say that their revolution is actually all this. This means that we’re before a complete revolution for the poor, the free, the students, the freedom seekers, the people who reject subordination to the American and Israeli will. We’re before a humanitarian, social, and political revolution against everything, against oppression and corruption but also against the regime’s policies towards the Arab-Israeli conflict,” Nasrallah said.
“Your movement will entirely change the face of our region for the interest of its own people,” Nasrallah said in a televised address to a conference in Beirut, held to support the popular uprising in Egypt.
“You are going through the battle of Arab dignity, restoring the dignity of Arab people,” he added.
Egypt has been rocked by two weeks of protests demanding Mubarak, who has ruled for 30 years with an iron-fist, step down. Mubarak has refused, claiming his departure would cause chaos in the Arab world’s most populous nation, although he did announce that he would not run for re-election in September.
Nasrallah expressed Hezbollah’s support for the Egyptian and Tunisian people fighting against the dreadful regimes.
What the world is witnessing today is a real and patriotic revolution in Egypt, he noted.
According to Al Manar, Sayyed Nasrallah was speaking through a video link at the end of a rally organized in support of Egypt by a number of Lebanese political parties and figures at Ghobeiry Square, Beirut. The rally was held under the slogans “In support of the Egyptian people's revolution against the Camp David regime” and “In support of Egypt's Arab identity.”
Nasrallah began his speech by offering his apology to the Tunisian and Egyptian people for the delay in this stance of support, which he said was not delayed by hesitation or confusion. “After all our experiences in resistance to the U.S.-Zionist schemes in Lebanon and the region, we cannot stand by idly when a dispute takes place between the oppressed and the oppressor, between the right and the wrong,” Nasrallah stated.
The Hezbollah secretary general noted that the Islamic resistance movement had a painful experience in this regard with the Egyptian regime when one of its members was arrested because he was cooperating with a few Egyptian and Palestinian young men to serve the people of Gaza. “Only one of our brothers was detained because of an operation of a logistic nature to back the resistance in Gaza. Yet, we were accused of having a cell aiming at overthrowing the regime, changing the picture and converting Egyptians to Shias,” he added. “That’s why we chose to delay our stance out of respect of the Egyptian sensitiveness, after taking the same advice from our Egyptian friends.”
According to Nasrallah, the world is witnessing a real, patriotic, and popular Egyptian revolution in which Muslims and Christians are participating as well as various movements. “In this revolution, all Egyptians are taking part, including children, women, men, intellectuals, scholars, workers. But the major and strongest element in this revolution remains the youth generation. That’s why we can say that we’re before a complete revolution.”
Nasrallah also emphasized that this revolution is the product of the people’s will and determination. “The people are the ones protesting, offering martyrs. They are the ones who will decide what they want, which system will prevail, which solution they will adopt,” he said. “All accusations to the revolution of having an outside agenda will fall in front of the will of the courageous people of Egypt.”
“The truth is declared, however, by the protesters themselves through their slogans, blood, smiles… and stances. They obviously say that their revolution is actually all this. This means that we’re before a complete revolution for the poor, the free, the students, the freedom seekers, the people who reject subordination to the American and Israeli will. We’re before a humanitarian, social, and political revolution against everything, against oppression and corruption but also against the regime’s policies towards the Arab-Israeli conflict,” Nasrallah said.
