Hezbollah = Iranian Tool
According to Hezbollah’s former secretary general:
In interview with the Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassa … Sheikh Subhi Al-Tufeili said that Hizbullah was part of Iranian intelligence, and called the July 12, 2006 abduction of two Israeli soldiers, which sparked the July-August 2006 war with Israel, an “unsuccessful adventure.”
Al-Tufeili: “Yes, Hizbullah is a tool, and it is an integral part of the Iranian intelligence apparatus. Unfortunately, all the elements in the [Lebanese] arena have become tools, and take orders from outside [Lebanon]…”
Question: “Can you see any justification for the July [2006] war after southern Lebanon was liberated in 2000?”
Al-Tufeili” “Following the abduction of the Israeli soldier [Gilad Shalit] in Gaza, and the enemy’s response to that operation, [i.e.] the shelling, and the abduction of Palestinian ministers and MPs… I was amazed when Hizbullah announced that it had abducted two Israeli soldiers…
“[Was it reasonable] for us to carry out an operation like this after we have seen the response to it in Gaza and in occupied Palestine? … I think that any sensible person could have assessed the enemy’s possible response to the abduction operation.”
He also spouts a lot of anti-Israel rhetoric, and essentially says, if Iran wants to take on Israel, it should do so itself. However:
“Today, [Hizbullah] is leading the country to civil war, in order to obtain a third [of the government]… If this third is so important, then [Hizbullah] must be punished, because it itself was the one who gave it to the [March 14 Forces in the first place]. If it is not important, then Hizbullah is leading us to civil war, to destruction and to the ruin of the country, for no good reason…”
“I find no [justification] for us having reached such a situation… This is how wars begin. What we are seeing today in Lebanon is the preparation of an emotional, popular, military, media, and security climate [leading] towards a war that might break out at any moment. I don’t believe anyone who says he is not interested in [civil] war, [yet] behaves in this manner. This is the behavior of someone who wants war.”
” … Iran is the main nerve in the activity today in Lebanon. All Hizbullah activity [is financed] by Iranian funds. Syria has an important role, but Iran is the main and primary support of [the Lebanese opposition]. On the other side, the U.S. is supporting the March 14 Forces.”
(MEMRI)
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:58 pm on Sunday, January 21, 2007
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January 22nd, 2007 at 12:33 am
Just some background:
Tufeili was forcefully ‘evicted’ from Hizballah and was something of a fugitive in Lebanon throughout the 1990’s. His dishonorable discharge from the group was due to his refusal to completely align the group along a Syrian-Iranian axis after the end of the Lebanese civil war and the establishment of a Syrian-mandate (Syrian-sponsored political and military intervention) in Lebanon.
He hid out in the Baalbeck valley for a while and retained the services of a small but fierce fighting unit made up of ex-Hizballah fighters loyal to him and some family members. Throughout the 1990’s there wree several attempts to assassinate him, or at least apprehend him, by Syrian security agencies operating in Lebanon, and also by Lebanese security services under instructions from the Syrians. Those attempts failed.