Hezbollah: US proposal for Syria ‘meaningless’

Hezbollah and Iran must leave Syria for a lasting solution to the conflict to be reached, the US has said according to the deputy secretary-general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

Describing the conditions as “meaningless”, Naim Qassem said it must be the “victors” who place conditions, the US has been defeated in Syria and so cannot set conditions, he added.

Hezbollah and Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad are now in the stage of “successive victories for Syria and its axis. We have lifted this black cloud, victories will continue, and we will achieve more,” he continued.

Qassem called on “all factions counting on America” to “reconsider” their relationship with the “Great Satan” that is not loyal to its friends.

“They are Saudi Arabia’s allies, and tomorrow Saudi Arabia will see that the first strike it will get will be from America.”

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