Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah delivered a speech during Martyr’s Day ceremony in Beirut.

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah called on the US administration and the Zionist entity to understand very well that a war against Iran and Syria will engulf the entire region.

During a ceremony on the Martyr’s Day in Master of Martyrs Complex (PBUH) in the southern suburb of Beirut Friday afternoon, his eminence delivered his speech via video link at the rally, noting that despite all the threats in the region, all the local, regional and international situations of today are in favor of the peoples of the region and the axis of defiance and resistance more than any time ever.

Sayyed Nasrallah strongly believed that talk of an attack or a new war on Lebanon is an intimidation.

“We still rule out such an enemy assault on Lebanon at this time, regardless of the regional situation and development,” his eminence said.

He also went on to call upon those who bet on the fall of the Syrian regime to “put this bet aside, it will fail just like previous bets had failed,” he said.

In his speech, Sayyed Nasrallah saw no reason why Lebanon should be expected to contribute its share of the tribunal's funding given Washington's decision to cut off funds to the United Nations cultural agency UNESCO after members voted to admit Palestine as a full member.

"Isn't the funding of UNESCO an international obligation for the US?" he said. "Why can it shirk its obligation and not Lebanon?"

"If Lebanon doesn't fund this unconstitutional and illegal court, Feltman comes along and threatens sanctions," he added, referring to Jeffrey Feltman, the US assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs.

OUR SOUTH, STRONG and SAFE

At the beginning of his speech, Sayyed Nasrallah said that martyrs are “Life Makers”, and that Jihad, martyrdom and the will of those who resist and steadfast constitute the key path of this concept.

Noting that lovers of Imam Mousa al-Sadr live today a special sentiment awaiting for his return to Lebanon, God willing, his eminence read the words of Imam al-Sadr said in 1978, when he felt sorry for what Southern Lebanon -attacked by Zionist entity - had been suffering during that days.

“I told him to myself: when you return you will be proud of your students, sons and the resistance, which was founded and sacrificed in order to be,” Sayyed Nasrallah said, adding “the South today is safe, strong and constant firm. It is no more under the mercy of anyone, but strongly present in the regional equation.”

TURNING TABLE ON THE AGGRESSOR

His Eminence added: “We still rule out an enemy assault on Lebanon regardless of the regional situation and developments,” pointing out that “unless there is a plan for war on the whole region, we just do not think that Israel is able to do it.”

He stressed "this is not due to the moral generosity of Israel, the US and the UN Security Council, ... but because “Lebanon is not weak anymore. It is a strong state and is able - with his army, people and resistance - to defeat.”

“Lebanon has become able to turn the table on anyone who attacks him. Lebanon has become able to turn the threats into real opportunities,” he noted, stressing that Resistance did not sleep one day.

In Martyr's Day, Hezbollah S.G. went on to call for adherence to the resistance, the army and the popular will for being the real element of force.

LOCALS AND SECURITY

On the Lebanese cabinet, Sayyed Nasrallah said it has so far proved to be the government of diversity for representing a popular majority. "It is a cabinet of research, discussion and dialogue."

“Members of Lebanese cabinet discuss and make decisions. They neither wait for "sms", nor receive signals or suggestions from anyone. We call upon cabinet today to work, achieve, follow-up files and not to listen to all the noise, Sayyed Nasrallah said.

“The most important of the government's work is giving priority to livelihood issues.”

Addressing the Lebanese Army, his eminence called to neutralize the army as a guarantor of the sovereignty, national unity and security.

“All harsh experiences of Lebanon had proven that at the end of the day Lebanon has been lost and divided, while this institution (Army) remained the salvation stage,” he added.

UNESCO SCANDAL

Sayyed Nasrallah said that the issue of STL fund should be discussed in the cabinet, calling to learn lessons from the UNESCO event.

“It is useful that Lebanese and the public recognize what happened regarding the UNESCO issue, an international organization recognized the state of Palestine, but the USA became angry and stopped financing it. Why Lebanon should be expected to contribute its share of the tribunal's funding given Washington's decision to cut off funds to the United Nations cultural agency UNESCO?" his eminence asked.

IRAN AND SYRIA

Hezbollah Secretary General assured as well that betting on regional developments will eventually fail.

Touching the recent US and Zionist threats against Syria and the Islamic Republic of Iran, Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that Iran will not be afraid of fleets and intimidation.

“Iran and Syria were the two countries that opposed the US occupation of Iraq and the killing of its people. Iran had neither been weakened nor had it been submissive to the American terms.

"The US wants to compensate for its loss in Egypt by pushing Iran and Syria into a defensive position,” he said, warning that "whoever dares to launch war against Iran will be met with doubly that force."

"Iran is strong, united, powerful and has a leader unique to the whole world, even though the US has practically occupied every country around Iran, including Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.”

He added that any military action against Iran or Syria will spiral into regional war.

“They want to drag Iran into negotiations, and to force Syria in order to accept what it had rejected in the past,” he noted.

“American defeat in Iraq has strategic results at every level of our region. I call to shed light upon American withdrawal and defeat in Iraq. Ben Ali's and Gaddafi's regimes fall is a loss to the US project; fall of Mubarak's regime is a major loss for the US and Israel,” his eminence added addressing the US project defeat in the Middle East.

“We affirm that since the reign of martyr Ahmad Qasir to the day we entered the era of victories, where days of defeats had gone. Local, regional and international conditions are today in the interests of peoples of the region, as well as the axis of defiance and resistance more than any time ever”

“In all next expectations, as long as we are the people of faith, determination and will, God willing we will win,” Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah concluded.