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In a recent televised speech, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah claimed that the Biden administration’s top priority today was to prevent the formation of a major alliance or axis between China, Russia, and Iran.
Nasrallah also claimed that the United States and Israel were today in a state of decline, while the Iran-led ‘Axis of Resistance’ was on an upward trajectory.
The ‘Axis of Resistance’ broadly refers to a strategic anti-Israel/anti-US imperialist alliance composed of, but not limited to, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, Iraq’s Hashed al-Shaabi, Yemen’s Ansarullah, and various Palestinian armed factions.
Source: Spot Shot (YouTube) Date: 4 April, 2021
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Transcript:
Hezbollah Secretary General, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah:
Of course, the Israelis too – (staying on) the Israeli file – the Israelis these days, I mean in the past few weeks and months, almost every day, despite the (many military/security) manoeuvres, they (nevertheless) express very publicly their concerns and worries over the fact that the Axis of Resistance is developing, that it is developing its capabilities. On the other hand, yes indeed, the Resistance (Axis) is working on the development and accumulation of its capabilities. This means that their worry has (real) foundations, (the Israelis) are not making up (this sense) of worry and concern.
Today, the Axis of Resistance is not silent, it is not an axis experiencing stagnation. On the contrary (my) honourable brothers, the Axis of Resistance has (successfully) passed – in these past 10 years – through the worst, most dangerous phase of its life and history. This is evident in what happened in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq (these past 10 years), as well as (what happened in) the entire region, and in the severe embargo and maximum sanctions (campaign) on Iran and so on.
Indeed, this axis is facing these threats with increased work, hard work, diligent work, away from any type of showing-off (i.e. fruitless muscle-flexing). (The goal of all this work) is to accumulate the capabilities and power (of the Resistance Axis), (capabilities) that will decisively decide the future.
I would like to conclude with the following words; I wish to depict the international and regional scene, and share some advice too, advice to (some in) Lebanon and to the region as a whole, not only to the Lebanese. Today, there is definitely a (particular) scene in the world, and I will be brief here, as I have already taken a lot of time and I have only got a few more minutes according to the brothers. They gave me limited time, otherwise, these days I’m taking much time – I’m delivering long speeches.
There are significant international developments (occurring today), and it is clear that the top priority of the US administration is China and Russia. China as an economic force that can become the top economic force in the world, which Biden says will not happen (as long as) he is around. Russia, of course, is not an economic threat. They rather view it more from the military, political and security angles, in addition to competition (with it) on the global (level).
There are ongoing American efforts to prevent the formation of a coalition, front, axis, or something of this nature, whereby Iran stands besides China and Russia. For this reason, they are seeking to address the nuclear file issue with Iran, with an emphasis on diplomacy. Of course, the emphasis on diplomacy here is not an American act of kindness; it is a testament to the power of Iran. By the way, Iran’s position on this issue is powerful and firm. What (Iran) did not give to Trump under the maximum sanctions (campaign) and daily war threats, it will not give (Biden) today while it stands on the verge of (successfully) overcoming the embargo and sanctions phase.
So, these are the priorities of the Americans, they are trying to work out how to deal with the files of the (Middle East) region in one way or another; let’s go to Yemen and see how we can extinguish the Yemen war, or let’s go to Afghanistan and see how we can clean up the situation in Afghanistan. (This is what is on their mind), but their approach is not clear yet, because they have not taken final decisions (on these high-level matters), according to the information (we currently have).
Regardless of what some analysts say, concerning Syria and Lebanon, it is obvious that the (the American side) is distracted from Palestine. What I want to say – through this quick analysis – to the friends of America in our region, and to whoever is betting on the American administration in our region, I say to them that (America’s) priorities – or in other words, there are new developments that they need to take into consideration.
The first development is that the new American priorities are not (related to) our region, except for what relates to Israel. Their priorities now are Russia, China, and how to resolve the issue with Iran. Thus, if you want to resolve your crises, end your wars, solve your problems, improve your situation and achieve compromises, if you are waiting for the Americans to achieve all of this, then the wait will be very long.
Secondly, America is no longer the America that you know. There is a new term that his eminence Imam Khamenei presented last year, and he had placed a lot of emphasis on it. I hereby call for reflection on (this term) so that we don’t take it as a mere headline or form of political rhetoric: “The decline of America”. America is in decline. In the words of some literature, it can be described as (on a) “descending arc”. America is now in a state of fall; in a state of descent.
America’s upcoming challenges today, most of them are related to internal problems, regarding the Corona Virus; the economic situation and its consequences; the white race (and race-related issues), fanaticism, infighting and associated dangers. America has never experienced internal dangers the likes of which it is facing today. This requires a prolonged discussion, but there is a (certain) outlook (on this issue which I will share later).
Of course, when we talk strategically, we are not talking about one year, or two, three, four or five – we are talking about a trajectory. The trajectory of the US is a trajectory of decline, descent, and downfall. Whereas the trajectory of the Axis of Resistance in the region, (with its) states, movements, and peoples, is an upward trajectory.
Priorities will (thus) be different. Therefore, I hereby call on you all, as states, peoples, regimes, movements, peoples, sects, groups, and whatever else: let us not wait for America, let us not wait for the (rest of the) world. Let us not wait for international developments. Let us hold dialogue on the regional and national (levels). Let us hold dialogue among all the states of the region, and dialogue among the peoples of the region, in order to resolve our problems and crises.
Let us not put off until tomorrow what we can do today, as the present day is better for you than tomorrow. I believe that all those who belong to the Axis of Resistance, as a result of the honesty, sincerity, and concern (they have) for their homelands, they are ready to reach certain resolutions, solutions, and compromises that would allow us to overcome all these difficult phases. This is the horizon that we see before us.
Of course, in light of this international and regional shift, Israel, just like its master, is on a path of decline. It is on “the descending arc”. The earnest wish of his eminence, (the late) Sheikh Ahmad Zein, that which the brothers spoke about before me, this wish is strong and vibrant. God willing, some of us – at the very least – will enter (the city of) al-Quds and pray in al-Quds, God willing. This is the horizon which we can see.
The last two sentences are telling. There is no equivocation whatsoever.
All of the pieces of the ‘puzzle’ are now pointing toward Armageddon.
Again, W.B Yeats speaks fresh, as did he on the eve of WW I:
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
Thank you for reminding me of this poem that I had to learn at my English school 60 years ago.
“W.B Yeats speaks fresh, as did he on the eve of WW I:”
Actually, he wrote it in 1919 – just after WW1.
At the height of the ‘Troubles’ in Ireland during the period 1912-1922.
Why is the US capitalist system in the decline that Mr. Nasrallah describes? That is the question. I can think of no better quick description of the problem that all capitalist systems have eventually faced, from a purely historical perspective, than that elucidated in a recent discussion between Georgi Derluguian and Oksana Boyko on what is IMO the best episode of “Worlds Apart” that I’ve ever seen. (In particular, notice what Mr. Derluguian says about the “speed” of change being unpredictable. Here is where I think Mr. Nasrallah may be wrong in his pediction about the time-scale, the trajectory, of US decline.)
https://www.rt.com/shows/worlds-apart-oksana-boyko/517436-derluguian-gorbachev-perestroika-capitalism/
America is a great country which has survived many humiliations ‘eg Vietnam’ and yet did not back off. These humiliations are never defeat, they(the humiliations) only help them restrategise and continue in the the same policy. The decline in my opinion is only wishful thinking
Are you in the USA, go to any downtown metropolitian area, those people living on the street, under the bridge, standing in the food line, living in the tent at the Park…………they are humiliated, they are real, they are defeated and they are wishing for something better…………right, off to join the Army! The ‘they/them’ are surrounded by the ‘defeated’. You can’t wish away decline, it’s on.
Cheers, M
The decline is relative, relative to others. In 20 years the US will be on the third position, economically, after China and India. The technical genie is out of the bottle and nobody can put it back.
India is not even comparable to developed nations in terms of productivity, infrastructure, or innovation, the vast majority of India is entirely backwards, and that will not be changing anytime soon.
“The decline is relative”
You are correct. Almost all of us are in decline. The decline is due to the drop in production of cheap oil. This process is being accelerated by the virus nonsense so that there is always some oil for the jets of Bill Gates.
The countries that are most “advanced” are the very ones that will suffer the steepest declines – USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Spain etc.
Per capita, China uses far less oil per capita – even though they export much of their output.
@Esharkey,
You have a strange view and use of words.
Humiliations are not defeats?
Defeat precedes humiliation.
The US has suffered endless defeats, not just Vietnam. Where are the victories?
The humiliations have never forced restrategies. You even state they continue their losing policies.
So, in sum, the US has losing policies from flawed strategies and will be a loser in all its wars and efforts to control the globe.
They merely postpone via endless wars the utter humiliation of losing Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. And soon they may get their arrogant asses destroyed by proxy in Ukraine.
These are the facts, not wishes.
The defeats that the US experiences are not on the level of Unconditional Surrender, which Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan experienced. While the US lost in Vietnam, it was not so severe that just 15 years later, serial war criminal and traitor, George Bush bragged about ‘getting over the Vietnam Syndrome’.
It will only change when the defeat is so total, that a real ICC tribunal holds all the miscreants accountable, from Presidents all the way down.
The problem is most people globally in the west have a rudimentary knowledge of what is happening !
The propaganda machine is in full swing and I feel like a lost voice in a big crowd of sheep!
You are right … and not alone feeling lost within those who don’t even bother to think as well as haven’t read history books to know how empires fell in past times ..
Interesting speech from Nasrallah. Can it be that slowly, gradually, but inexorably he calls the forces of the region to summon their will in consensus so that several countries at once can form an unbreakable alliance that nether Israel nor the US nor the United Nations can gainsay?
Something like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, perhaps? A security alliance made up formally of sovereign nations?
I’m not saying Nasrallah would do this purely for his own country’s benefit – because certainly such an alliance would benefit the whole region – but surely there must be few moments when Nasrallah doesn’t think about the plight of Lebanon, and what Hezbollah can do to save the nation? Surely Nasrallah must ponder day and night what is the best thing to do to save the nation?
The best solution for Lebanon would be one that is endorsed and guaranteed by its neighbors in the region. Could it be that Nasrallah thinks in these terms?
Pure speculation here. But Nasrallah is essentially telling the region that America is falling away, and that the region is increasingly undisturbed to create its own future – not to react in counterbalance with external forces, but to build its own destiny.
And the security of the region requires Lebanon to be a whole country, with the beginnings of sovereign coherence.
So, one wonders where these words of Nasrallah fall, to what fertile ground, and to sprout as what flowers?
Russia has offered a great energy deal to Japan and wants a partnership in the technology arena. A great move by Vladimir Putin to win over Japan. Russia is strengthening its position in the East.
China and Russia are working to win Germany too. A strategic partnership of China, Germany, Japan, and Russia will create a formidable challenge for Five Eyes.
Israel thought it was real cute flooding America, Europe, White Christian countries with 3rd World scum to destroy us. Instead Israel has destroyed it’s Protector and only hope. The New Peoples have zero respect for holocaustianity or the bigots of Israel