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Hezbollah’s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah reveals the ‘real reason’ why the United States has been ‘waging war on Iran for the last 40 years’. Nasrallah was speaking at a ceremony marking 40 years since the ‘victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran’.
Source: Al-Manar Tv (YouTube)
Date: 6 February, 2019
Read transcript: http://middleeastobserver.net/video-nasrallah-on-real-reason-why-us-continues-40-years-of-war-on-iran-english-subs/
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Facts + Powerful Logic.
He undermines the entire US-Israeli propaganda war with this brief exposition.
It is impervious to misunderstanding.
Read the transcript at MEO, link above.
And for the slow, here, too: http://middleeastobserver.net/video-nasrallah-on-real-reason-why-us-continues-40-years-of-war-on-iran-english-subs/
Nasrallah is always on target like a Kalibr cruise missile.
Yes, Nasrallah sure is. Well said, and thanks for the link, Larch.
Nasrallah says; “some people within Iran are working to promote these fallacies.”
Must be the same (too) influential (fascist, anti-Muslim) fifth column (of traitors, collaborators) within Iran which (again) makes Iran playing right into the hands of the Great Satan.
See Andrew Korybko’s article (at Eurasia Future): https://eurasiafuture.com/2019/02/18/irans-being-tricked-into-making-balochistan-the-new-kurdistan/
Larchmonter445
Yes, Nasrallah presented facts and powerful logic. I would, however, like to add a few points. The US is not only hostile towards Iran because it is a sovereign state. Yes, it wants it’s oil and gas. However, the chief reason is to prevent Iran joining the Eurasian Economic Union. Not only would this strengthen the Union, but would start a chain reaction, with Turkey, and Germany later on, joining the Union. When Mike Pence went to Munich for that Security Conference, he opened his speech by conveying Donald Trumps greetings. He paused for five seconds, expecting applause. What he got was a deathly silence. Washington’s European allies did not reciprocate. Pence must have got the message what the mood in Europe is vis a vis Washington’s policies. That deathly silence is one of the most important political messages I have seen in the past few years.
great translation – very understandable and easy to follow- Thanks so much !!!
Seems to me he omits an important detail, which is that Sunni Islam is not the same as Wahhabi , which appears to be a murderous cult started by bandits.
By presenting Islam as Shia and Wahhabi, what about the generally peaceful relations between the main two sects, not to mention Sufi, Shia and Sunni?
It seems to me that western outside observers make too much of the Sunni/Shia divide. The rich and the powerful tend to worry about the purity of doctrine and lineage; the poor attend to justice and righteousness. The arrogant see a lever that they might use. I recall an episode of Peter Lavell’s Crosstalk where Michael O Hanlon, the expert from the Brookings Institution was incredulous that Syria would not be split along sectarian lines.
Fomenting and exacerbating hatred between Sunni and Shia is the prime mechanism identified in the seminal Zionazi planning document, the Oded Yinon Plan, for achieving Israel’s aims of destroying and breaking up all its neighbours, the better to be able to seize the land of Eretz Yisrael, ‘..from the Nile to the Euphrates’, as Herzl described it. The means to achieve Sunni participation (only of a tiny fraction of the Sunnis, as shown by the steadfastness of the overwhelmingly Sunni Syrian Arab Army) is the proselytising of the Evil and genocidal death-cult, Wahhabism, the cult of the ruling Saud family barbarians in Saudi Arabia. A plan, tragically ironically, of Hitlerite malevolence, but really just standard ‘Divide and Conquer’ tactics, as old as ‘civilization’ itself.
@Mulga: “‘….from the Nile to the Euphrates’, as Herzl described it.”
I think Herzl was quoting a piece of Zionazi propaganda from the Old Testament.
“LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates.” — The Bible, Genesis 15:18, King James Version.
subhuti, he is primarily speaking to an audience which understands the differences between sunni islam and wahhabis.
Exactly!
Chechen Sunnis are the spine of the Russian MPs that protect all the liberated Syrian people regardless of ethnicity or religious confession. The Chechen war was finalized when Chechen Sunnis under Kadyrov defeated the Wahhabi islamist terrorist Chechens and Saudi-US sponsored terrorists.
Nasrallah did not have to parse his words on this matter.
It is understood, especially in the Levant and Shia Crescent.
What I would like to hear and read of is his POV on the Muslim Brotherhood as the ultimate overlord of radical islamist terror.
Larch,
This is a complex issue since the Muslim Brotherhood are not a homogenic group, with factions and groups regularly offshooting from the MB and then severing ties with them, etc. Think of Hamas. There are even MB groups in the GCC that secretly want to ally with Hezbollah, under the “enemy of my enemy” motto, etc.
Its a pretty fluid environment, if you get my drift (or my flow lol).
I’d put Sordid Barbaria and the Wahhabist genocide-cult, the USA (and its NATO stooges, particularly England), the Godfather of al-Qaeda and all its bastard spawn, and Israel, above the Moslem Brotherhood as patrons of jihadist butchery.
This man, and Hezbollah, are, of course, marked as “terrorists” by the zionists, and the real terror state, Israel.
We are indeed living under total darkness, darkness brought to us by Evil itself.
If I was a man of God, I would say that the Satan itself rules over the West and laughs at all good people, who worship him as a “Savior”.
In my country, the so called pentecostalists, worship Israel, collect money to Israel, kneel before the zionists. One of them tried to convince me to give money to “israeli drug addicts”. What kind of power can do this to good people? Are they from this world? They cannot be, they must be aliens…Good God…
The “eternal” battle of God versus Satan is clear, and embodied in the great religions and philosophical wisdom of mankind.
It is natural to aver from consciously examining such a reality. We look to psychological definitions and criminal definitions and actions and plots against humanity. However, these are the works of Satan.
Among us are devils. The Way of the Devil is no longer local. It has become globalized.
In some ideologies, Satan is the ideal.
Dear Larchmonter445, after having studied the prevalence of people with empathy disturbances in different professions and ethnic groups one starts to wonder. A group that makes non-empathic behaviour a norm, something to admire or emulate, likely end up having a lot of power, but also ultimately reduce their spiritual growth and overall mental health&wellbeing. In the past, societies had ways of ridding themselves of non-useful psychopaths. Today, more often than not, they fester and procreate. If you have not read Political Ponerology (The Study of Evil) or Sheridans “The Anvil of Psyche” I thoroughly recommend them.
‘Israeli drug addicts’ is particularly ironic, given that those Jewish ‘philanthropists’, the Sackler family, and their ‘business’ (ie drug peddling) methods are central to the prescription opioid epidemic and mass murder in the USA. What a shame that the Christian Zionists support Israel primarily because they see the creation of Israel as the prelude to the End Times, where, in their twisted, sadistic and genocidal perversion of Christianity, they believe that all Jews who do not convert to their odious form of Christianity, will burn in Hellish torment forever, in other words, in an Eternal Auschwitz. Meanwhile the Pentecostals, monsters of human depravity like Pence and Pompeo, will be Raptured to their Lord’s side. You can also sniff the stench of sulphur.
Hassan Nasrallah is about as right and honest as Gavin Williamson is wrong and execrable. Sacrifice and struggle breed dignity in people.
Hassan Nasrallah nails it: Wahhabism is a foreign sponsored ’Muslim’ creed, put to good use by the ruling circles in the US spreading the plague far and wide. Moreover, Nasrallah’s description of Trump’s brain is as accurate as can be; Venezuela has no place in Trump’s mind howsoever with regard to any social issues.
For comparison, try imagine a Zionazi delivering anything even remotely similar. Won’t happen. Ever.
Nasrallah is absolutely spot on. The truth. This sort of thing you will never ever see in the vile presstitute media in the West. The Anglo Zionist Empire will not tolerate any fully independent country anywhere that controls its own resources. The rare time Yemen is mentioned in the ‘media’ – its always termed as Iran is meddling, Iran is sponsoring terrorists, and the Houthis are always labelled ‘Iranian backed Houthis’. The reason is obvious. The real terrorists sit in Washington DC. How many countries has the United States bombed, invaded, droned, had those countries Govts overthrown, had their leaders assassinated, interfered in elections, on and on. Pure Evil. Harold Pinter was another who saw the truth; of what the United States really was. We need more Nasrallah’s and Pinter’s in this Orwellian matrix of mass deceptions and propaganda.
Soon the Great Satan will have bankrupted itself via Jewish colonizers, Wall Street bailouts, tax cuts for billionaires and Fortune 500 companies, and finally wasteful spending by the MIC.
The world doesn’t and won’t finance those deficits and the US will have to print more and more money to finance government spending over the next decade.
That will wreck the value and hegemony of the US dollar and they don’t have the military to maintain it. China has started buying gold again after a 2-year layoff and Russia’s hypersonic missile tech advantage will force the US to spend more like waste or scam a trillion??? to catch up.
IT’s Game Over for the Washington Failmeisters.
Trillions wasted on a military that can’t enforce US dollar hegemony.
Trillions wasted on trying to solve the unsolvable security issues of a racist settler state in the middle east.
Trillions wasted on crony capitalism aka socialism for the rich and corporate welfare for the FIRE economy.
The Washington Failmeisters have the reverse Midas touch. I’d say the Great Satan is nothing more than a Great Pile of S..t.(MOD edit)
https://goldswitzerland.com/the-chinese-and-maginot-gold-lines/
Trillions the US doesn’t have:
The Dire, Unintended Consequences of Trump’s MAGA War on China
ALASTAIR CROOKE | 18.02.2019
But perhaps the worry most likely to arise from past precedent will be Trump’s insistence on full-spectrum, US military re-arming. He has promised to out-spend and out-innovate all rivals on a revamp of weapons systems, and is engaged in shaking the US free from all and any restrictions, stemming from earlier weapons limitation treaties.
In this connection – just last week – something most significant occurred. As Gillian Tett of the FT reports: “Beth Hammack, a senior Goldman Sachs banker, who chairs a US government advisory group known as the Treasury Bond Advisory Committee, dispatched a letter to Steven Mnuchin, Treasury secretary – with a bombshell at the bottom”. She continues: “According to TBAC calculations, America will need to sell an eye-popping $12 Trillion of bonds in the coming decade. This will “pose a unique challenge for the Treasury”, Ms Hammack warned, even “without factoring in the possibility of a recession”. In plain English”, Tett continued, “the Wall Street luminaries on the committee were asking who on earth — or in global finance — will buy this looming mountain of Treasuries?”.
This – just to be clear – will be the US borrowing requirement, before even Trump raises a finger on his major upgrade of America’s weapons systems. The Advisory Committee further warned that deficits typically rise 2-5% of GDP in recessions, which would translate to additional deficits of $0.5-1trn at current GDP levels; and warned too that “these borrowing needs [would all] have to be financed in the context of already high global dollar debt exposure.”
Lest the full gravity of this message is missed, Tett adds that “this week, one of America’s biggest hedge funds privately concluded that – in five years’ time – the Treasury will need to sell bonds equivalent to 25% of GDP, (up from 15 % now).” “This level of debt has occurred just twice in the past 120 years, first during the second world war and then again during the 2008 financial crisis. The first time, the US government forced private domestic savers to buy its debt via a patriotic propaganda campaign and financial controls. The second time it relied on its central bank’s balance sheet via quantitative easing [i.e. ‘printing’ money].”
“Because of the size of the US economy and markets … it will require about a 6 per cent shift in global asset allocations” to absorb the debt, this hedge fund warned …“What if investors don’t want to make that shift?”.
An important question. But Trump has taken up the major military revamp banner with characteristic MAGA nationalistic bravado. And now hardly a day passes without China being described to Congress as “the greatest long-term strategic threat” to US. The Military Industrial Complex, Congress and the Beltway – all of them have the bit between their teeth. The pork-barrel dollars will fertilise all fifty states, be sure of that, and Congressional ‘eyes’ are already fixed on that juicy prospect. No way this will be walked-back completely.
But, back to that ‘eye-popping’ TBAC bombshell, it must be understood against the backdrop of the dollar share in global foreign exchange reserves falling from 70% in 1999, to about 63% at the end of 2017 – and global trade, as a share of world GDP, seeming to have peaked.
See also: Report to the Secretary of the Treasury from the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association
January 29, 2019
The presenting member estimated borrowing needs to exceed $12 Trillion without factoring in the possibility of a recession which would pose a unique challenge for Treasury over the coming decade. Additionally, given stagnation in international reserves, there is likely an increased need for this debt to be financed domestically.
@Rob. The Failmeisters, continually trying to “create their own reality”, often remind me of a line from Goethe’s Faust:
“A moderate house of cards, the greatest wit, /
Though he can start it, cannot finish it.”
The American Empire is increasingly lashing out against all its opponents (Iran, China, Russia, Venezuela, etc.) as it intuitively feels that its beloved New World Order … sorry… Liberal International Order is imploding beneath its very feet.
The Anglo-Jewish ruling class of this American Empire can only resort to war to maintain its imperial stranglehold on the world.
Deep down, the Anglo-Jewish Americans believe they are God’s Chosen People–and thus have a God-given right to rule the world–under the pretext of defending “freedom and democracy.”
This fundamentalist belief in American Moral Exceptionalism is the foundation of American identity itself, and thus makes the Americans an existential threat to the world.
They will not go peacefully.
They will have to be ended–and with it the American entity itself.
Anonymous: Bingo. Scary, very turbulent times dead ahead. These psychopaths will not give up their power and obscene wealth peacefully. Sadly, a huge amount of blood will be spilled. They are going down, that’s undeniable. As Saker said a while ago, how much damage will they cause on the way down?
The Americans you may like (those who think like you) would outnumber those you may like to have ‘ended’ by a hundred to one and those who have no opinion (or knowledge) would outnumber those you may like by a hundred to one. I think you are wrong to generalise.
The enemy is identifiable. It could be castrated and quarantined. It is actually just a coward with a magic pudding and a lot of experience.
Duck, I think you are right. Hitler made the same mistake; instead of going for the Anglo Zio Capitalists (both Jewish and Gentile) who had ruined Germany with their WW1 and their run on its currency, he went for a soft target: a defenseless mass of civilians (imbeciles, homosexuals, Gypsies, Slavs and Jews). His targeting of Communists made him a tool of Capitalism, and to please those masters he disastrously attacked Russia. For financial nous he ended up with a Jewish banker. I think that people today, who attack Jews and Judaism instead of Capitalists and Capitalism, are in likewise line for manipulation by astute Capitalists.
I wonder where the americans learned to adopt their exceptionalism from?
and the germans likewise were influenced by something or someone.
not to mention the more subtle british chutzpah learned from someone.
NEW YORK, September 27, 2017 — Foreign Minister of Iran Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif discusses the
Iran Nuclear Deal and issues such as Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Yemen with journalist and broad-
caster Charlie Rose at Asia Society in New York.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3UoWNubYSE
The greatest calamity of the First World War was the little publicized Iranian Holocaust.
An interview with the author of: “The Great Famine and Genocide in Persia, 1917-1919”
(Mohammad Gholi Majd)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWc8-P29wIc