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“Hezbollah: If Assad is Threatened, We will Hit Israel”
by Jpost
August 29th, 2013

Hezbollah said it would fire rockets at Israel if the West attacks Syria in an attempt to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad.

However, if the strikes were limited, Hezbollah would probably not retaliate, according to sources close to the group quoted in a report on Wednesday in the LebaneseDaily Star.

“In the event of a qualitative [Western military] strike that aims to change the balance of power in Syria, Hezbollah will fight on various fronts,” the senior source said.

“However, if the Western attack is limited to certain targets in Syria, then, Hezbollah will not intervene,” said the source.

Prime Minister Wael al- Halqi on Wednesday warned against foreign military action against his country, asserting that Syria would become a “graveyard of invaders,” AFP reported.

Halqi accused Western powers of creating pretexts to attack the regime in Damascus, adding that Syria would “surprise the aggressors as it surprised them in” the Yom Kippur War in 1973, when Arab states launched a surprise attack on Israel.

The “colonialist threats” of foreign nations “do not terrorize us, because of the will and determination of the Syrian people, who will not accept being humiliated,” AFP quoted Halqi as saying on state television.

The Kuwaiti newspaper Al- Rai quoted sources close to Assad saying Syria would have nothing to lose if it were attacked, and would attack Israel. Assad has ordered the leaders of the Syrian military to prepare to respond in the form of intensive raids. Syria has its M-600 and Yakhont missiles ready, according to the report.

The sources said that unlike Iraq’s Scud missile attacks during the First Gulf War, Syria’s missiles were not more than 50 km. from the most sensitive points in Israel.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that US intervention in Syria would be “a disaster for the region,” the ISNA state news agency reported.

After supporting Arab uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa in 2011 as examples of what Khamenei called an “Islamic awakening,” Tehran has steadfastly supported Assad against a two-and-a-half-year-long rebellion.

“The intervention of supraregional and foreign powers in one country will have no result other than lighting a fire and increase the hatred people have for them,” the ISNA agency quoted Khamenei as saying. “This lighting of a fire is like a spark in a gunpowder magazine whose dimensions and consequences are unknown.

“Any intervention and warmongering will certainly harm those who start this fire,” Khamenei said. “If such an action is taken, the Americans will certainly be harmed just like in their interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

Meanwhile, Assad’s forces appear to have evacuated most personnel from army and security command headquarters in central Damascus, in preparation for a Western military strike, residents and opposition sources said on Wednesday.

Army units stationed near the capital have confiscated several trailer trucks, apparently to transport heavy weaponry to alternative locations, though no significant movement of military hardware has been reported, possibly due to heavy fighting near major highways, one of the sources added.

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