Summary: Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah has become a popular figure in the Arab and Islamic worlds, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said here on Saturday.
“Today, the Islamic world, Arab nations, and all freedom-seeking nations support Hezbollah and Lebanon,” Ayatollah Khamenei said during a meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
 

The U.S. and Israel are not able to understand the power of the Lebanese nation; therefore, they accuse others of interfering in Lebanon’s internal affairs, he added.
The Americans encouraged Israel to continue the previously planned war so that they could take one long and practical step toward implementing their so-called the Greater Middle East Initiative, but they had not considered the Lebanese nation in their calculations, he added
 The U.S. seeks to create a Middle East with puppet governments led by the Zionist regime, he opined.
Hezbollah’s preemptive attacks have stymied the U.S. and the occupying regime, he said, adding that the heroic and wonderful resistance of the Lebanese nation and Hezbollah has caused the U.S. to come up against a wall.
The Leader called Israel’s massacre of innocent people “unprecedented” and said, “In such a situation, the conscience of the so-called civilized world is not disturbed, and international organizations which claim to be defending human rights and democracy keep mum.”
He called on governments and nations that still have a conscience to remain unified and to resist the atrocities.
“Today, the world has changed and most nations have awakened to protest the cruel stances of the U.S. because they hate the superpower that wants to take control of the world,” he noted.
 

Source:.  Date: 29/07/2006  Time 00:36