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17. Hezbollah says Turks and Saudis dragging the whole region into war

Wed Feb 17, 2016, 01:06 PM

Feb 2016

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday accused Ankara and Riyadh of dragging the entire region into war and said “victory” was imminent for his Shiite Lebanese group and its Syrian regime allies.

“They (Turkey and Saudi Arabia) are ready to drag the region into a war,” Nasrallah said in a video address to supporters in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah bastion.

He said the two countries have been pushing to send in international ground forces because they “are not ready to accept a political solution to the conflict in Syria, which is why they want to continue the war and destroy it”.

Nasrallah said Riyadh and Ankara planned to intervene directly because their allies “the Islamist rebels on the ground have suffered successive defeats” at the hands of Kurdish and Syrian regime forces.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/hezbollah-says-turks-and-saudis-dragging-the-whole-region-into-war/

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