Hezbollah: US offered assistance in return for ceding resistance

Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah yesterday revealed that the United States had offered his organisation abundant assistance on condition that it would give up resistance, Lebanese media reported.

Speaking at an electoral rally in the southern town of Nabatieh, Nasrallah said former US Vice President Dick Cheney made the offer through US-Lebanese journalist George Nader.

“Following the 2000 victory, the Israeli enemy, along with the US, realised that Lebanon’s real power lies in its resistance which managed to force the Israeli occupation out of Lebanon without any condition,” he said.

“We were offered money and to be part of the authority in Lebanon on condition that we cede resistance,” he said, noting that “my mistake at the time was that I didn’t accept to take his paper, so that it would be a proof now.”

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