SUCH GOOD FRIENDS….ASSAD, AH’JAD AND HEZBO CHIEF…SO MUCH IN COMMON
Hezbollah chief meets Ahmadinejad in Damascus
AFP/HO – A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows (L-R) Lebanon’s Hezbollah … DAMASCUS (AFP) – The head of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, which shares Tehran’s vision of a world without Israel, travelled to Damascus for talks with allies Syria and Iran, the SANA news agency said Friday.
Hassan Nasrallah attended a dinner banquet in Damascus Thursday hosted by President Bashar al-Assad in honour of his visiting Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the official agency said without giving further details.
But Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television in Lebanon reported that Nasrallah and Ahmadinejad met to discuss “the latest developments in the region, and Zionist threats against Lebanon and Syria.”
Iran and Hezbollah repeatedly call for the annihilation of Israel.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchcher Mottaki also attended Thursday’s meeting, the television said, adding that Nasrallah had headed an “important delegation” to the Syrian capital.
Since the 2006 conflict between Hezbollah and Israel that devastated Lebanon and resulted in more than 1,000 Lebanese deaths, Nasrallah has seldom left his Lebanese stronghold and has made few public appearances.
With an Israeli death threat hanging over him, the Hezbollah chief has even avoided religious or political gatherings in Lebanon, and his televised speeches have been taped or broadcast from secret locations.
Iran and Syria are the main backers of Hezbollah, the only militia that has kept its military arsenal since the end of Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war.
Hezbollah has threatened to hit at Israel’s key infrastructures if the Jewish state launches a fresh attack on Lebanon.
Assad and Ahmadinejad signed a visa-scrapping accord in Damascus on Thursday, signalling even closer ties and brushing aside US efforts to drive a wedge between the two allies.
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