Nasrallah Says Ready to Confront Existential Threat Facing Lebanon: Those Considering ISIL a Joke Are Detached from Reality
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned on Friday of a “real existential danger” threatening Lebanon and the region, calling for putting all differences aside to face the threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
“We have to believe that there is a real existential danger threatening us all and it is not a joke,” Nasrallah said during a televised speech he gave on the occasion of the July 2006 war “victory.”
He elaborated: “The so-called ISIL is a group that has now seized large geographical areas in Syria and Iraq and taken control of resource fields and main water dams... This group has committed massacres, killed prisoners and civilians in Iraq and Syria, and also killed people close to ISIL, like al-Nusra fighters, and then assassinated people of other Islamist factions in Deir Ezzor and Reef Aleppo (in Syria) and Iraq.”
“The massacres that have been committed harmed Sunnis primarily and ISIL did not spare anyone in Iraq like Kurds, Yazidis, Shiites, Christians, Turkmen... this example has nothing to do with Islam,” he added.
“This group has a project and is threatening and terrifying people.”
“Is this scene a joke?” he asked. “We must be aware of this threat's potentials. Those who say nothing is happening are completely detached from reality.”
Nasrallah was referring to Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea who slammed in a televised interview on Wednesday ISIL as a “big lie” and assured that the extremist groups' atrocities in neighboring countries will not be repeated in Lebanon.
The Hizbullah chief then called on the “Lebanese and all people of the region to put all differences aside.”
“I call on every Lebanese, Palestinian, Iraqi, Syrian and any Gulf national to leave sectarian intolerance behind and think that this phenomenon is not a threat against Shiites only,” he said. “No one should regard this battle as a sectarian one, it is a takfiri war against anyone who opposes it.”
Nasrallah then denied that Hizbullah's withdrawal from the Syrian war would change this reality and eliminate the takfiri threat.
“If Hizbullah withdrew from Syria, would this eliminate the danger? Would this erase Lebanon from (ISIL chief Abu Bakr) al-Baghdadi's map? Is this beneficial?” he wondered.
He also denied that international force deployment along the border would protect the country from jihadist fighter influx.
“UNIFIL troops need someone to protect them,” he jokingly remarked.
He continued: “Does the disassociation policy protect Lebanon? If ISIL seized control of Syria and reached Rashaya (in Western Bekaa) and Baalbek (in the Bekaa) and the North, would the disassociation policy protect the country? Is this a realistic approach? Is this approach correct in the first place? We did not implement it, but others did not as well.”
He went on to say that “when the country is facing an existential threat the priority becomes facing this danger.”
Nasrallah reiterated that what protected Lebanon is the army-people-resistance equation.
He called for mobilizing financial and moral support for army troops and security forces, stressing that they are the bodies in charge of protecting the country.
“The Lebanese army and the security forces are the first factor to be invested in to face this danger. They protect the state and the towns, not Hizbullah,” he assured.
“The state should stand by the army all the time to release its kidnapped troops. Any moment that passes with soldiers still in captivity is a humiliation to the state,” he considered.
The Shiite leader also commented that safeguarding the country would be achieved through “preserving the current cabinet and preventing it from collapsing.”
"Despite all differences, we must preserve the cabinet as it is the only effective authority at the moment,” he pointed out.
S.D.B.
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15 August 2014, 21:55
Nasrallah on the presidential polls: We support a certain nominee and you know him. What are you waiting for?
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15 August 2014, 21:53
Nasrallah: U.N. Security Council resolution 1701 is useless and the UNIFIL troops are not doing anything.
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15 August 2014, 21:52
Nasrallah: Minimum cooperation should take place with Syria regarding the refugees' issue.
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15 August 2014, 21:49
Nasrallah: Arsal's future is linked to Baalbek, Hermel and the Bekaa - not al-Nusra or ISIL.
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15 August 2014, 21:48
Nasrallah: The person who was arrested for operating the Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade must be punished because incitement is similar to having a booby-trapped car.
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15 August 2014, 21:47
Nasrallah: Lebanese regions should reconcile and stop all forms of incitement.
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15 August 2014, 21:46
Nasrallah: We must also preserve the current Lebanese cabinet and not allow it to collapse despite the differences. It is the only effective authority at the moment.
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15 August 2014, 21:45
Nasrallah: The state should stand by the army all the time to release its kidnapped troops. Any moment that passes with the soldiers still in captivity is humiliating. This issue should be solved in a way that preserves the military institution. Secondly, we should stop insults and never slam the army as a tool in Hizbullah's hands. No, it is not a tool.
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15 August 2014, 21:43
Nasrallah: The first thing required is official and popular support to the army. The support should be financial and psychological...
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15 August 2014, 21:42
Nasrallah: We welcome any help for the Lebanese army but troops must get real weapons.
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15 August 2014, 21:42
Nasrallah: The Lebanese army and the security forces are the first factor to be invested in to face this danger. They protect the state and towns, not Hizbullah.
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15 August 2014, 21:40
Nasrallah: Logic says that when the country is facing an existential threat the priority becomes facing this danger. Those who do not do that are not acting logically, morally or based on religious values. They are distracting their people with issues that are not fateful.
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15 August 2014, 21:38
Nasrallah: Does the disassociation policy protect Lebanon? If ISIL seized control of Syria and reached Rashaya and Baalbek and the North, would the disassociation policy protect the country? Is this a realistic approach? Is this approach correct in the first place? We did not implement it, but so did others.
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15 August 2014, 21:35
Nasrallah: Some called for international force deployment along the border but is the South protected thanks to U.N. Security Council resolution 1701? Are you kidding yourselves? Ask the people of the South. UNIFIL troops need someone to protect them. What protected Lebanon is the army-people-resistance equation and not international troops.
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15 August 2014, 21:33
Nasrallah: The entire region is in danger and it is a national responsibility to protect the country and the people.
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15 August 2014, 21:32
Nasrallah: It is not enough to refer to Hizbullah's presence in Syria, al-Qusayr and al-Qalmun. If Hizbullah withdrew from Syria, would this eliminate the danger? Would this safeguard Lebanon from al-Baghdadi's map? Is this beneficial?
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15 August 2014, 21:27
Nasrallah: I tell the Christians of Lebanon that if you think the U.S. would do anything for you, you are wrong. The U.S. will tell you travel abroad, just like what France told Iraq's Christians.
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15 August 2014, 21:25
Nasrallah: We must discuss what we should so; should we bank on the international community? What international community in the first place? Where should it interfere and to serve whom?
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15 August 2014, 21:24
Nasrallah: I call on every Lebanese, Palestinian, Iraqi, Syrian and any Gulf national to leave sectarian intolerance behind and think that this phenomenon is a threat against Shiites only. No one should regard this battle as a sectarian one, it is a takfiri war against anyone who opposed it. It is a danger threatening everyone.
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15 August 2014, 21:21
Nasrallah: What I know is that Americans have turned a blind eye and expanded their vision to benefit from this phenomenon.
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15 August 2014, 21:20
Nasrallah: Is this scene a joke? This group is announcing a project, is threatening and terrifying people. It has presence in many Arab countries.
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15 August 2014, 21:18
Nasrallah: The massacres that have been committed harmed Sunnis primarily and ISIL did not spare anyone in Iraq like Kurds, Yazidis, Shiites, Christians, Turkmen... this example has nothing to do with Islam.
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15 August 2014, 21:16
Nasrallah: This group has committed massacres, has killed prisoners and civilians in Iraq and Syria, and also killed people close to ISIL, like al-Nusra fighters, and then assassinated people of other Islamist factions in Deir Ezzor and Reef Aleppo and Iraq...
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15 August 2014, 21:14
Nasrallah: The so-called ISIL is a group that has now taken control of large geographical areas in Syria and Iraq and has taken control of resource fields and main water dams. It has large quantities of weapons and ammunition and is selling oil. It also includes many foreign fighters whose arrival here has been facilitated.
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15 August 2014, 21:12
Nasrallah on ISIL: I want to tell the Lebanese and all the people of the region that we have to put all differences aside because these is a real danger threatening your entities, churches, mosques, your kids and your women.
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15 August 2014, 21:08
Nasrallah: Some people banked on the international community and on the UK, the Arab League, and the GCC to confront the Zionist project and we have been waiting for years but without getting anywhere.
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15 August 2014, 21:02
Nasrallah: We have to also find means to face this threat with real tools. We must not resort to illusions and options that have been tested and have failed. But we must choose real means based on the history of our people.
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15 August 2014, 21:00
Nasrallah: We have to believe that there is a real existential danger threatening us all and it is not a joke. And we must be aware of this threat's potentials. Those who say nothing is happening are completely detached from reality.
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15 August 2014, 20:59
Nasrallah: I tell the Lebanese and the Palestinians and the Syrians that we can take down this project but it needs time and effort.
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15 August 2014, 20:58
Nasrallah: The other factor of this project is the so-called takfiri movement, ISIL is a clear example.
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15 August 2014, 20:57
Nasrallah: Only then the enemy becomes the savior.
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15 August 2014, 20:57
Nasrallah: The new project aims at setting up a new map for the region.
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15 August 2014, 20:54
Nasrallah: The new project is more difficult and dangerous from the previous one because it does not aim at overthrowing regimes and replacing them with new ones, because in this case the country and the army remain the same while the authority changes only. The new project, meanwhile, is that of destruction, of destroying countries and armies and people and entities. What is happening today is a proof.
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15 August 2014, 20:53
Nasrallah: There are two factors in the new project for the region.
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15 August 2014, 20:53
Nasrallah: Today Americans are wary of a military comeback, or at least of having an on ground presence.
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15 August 2014, 20:52
Nasrallah: What is happening today in Gaza is a part of a new path for the region and in light of these new developments, what is desired is an Israeli control over the region's oil fields.
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15 August 2014, 20:49
Nasrallah: We are telling you this to remind you that the consequences of the 2006 war are still persistent and we assure you amid all dangers that we are still able to face these dangers and we are able to overthrow any projects in the region.
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15 August 2014, 20:47
Nasrallah: Moreover, the resistance rose in Iraq against American occupation and it led to the troops' withdrawal... This does not mean the U.S. failed to achieve its goals but the it changed its path. We must follow up on their paths to topple the American-Zionist plan for the region.
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15 August 2014, 20:46
Nasrallah: The political and popular resilience forced Americans and Europeans to ask Israelis to withdraw most of its conditions. The resistance, meanwhile, was glorified in Lebanon and regained trust. Also, the Israeli war did not reach Syria and the war on Gaza was postponed till after 2006.
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15 August 2014, 20:44
Nasrallah: This plan was obstructed thanks to the resistance in Lebanon and the legendary Lebanese resilience.
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15 August 2014, 20:43
Nasrallah: The factors of this plan include direct American occupation and secondly, the Israeli war aimed at attacking the resistance in Lebanon, attacking Syria and ending the resistance in Palestine.
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15 August 2014, 20:43
Nasrallah: There are two goals behind this plan; the first is for the U.S. to taken control of all oil and gas fields in the region and the second is drawing an end to the Palestinian cause and imposing a settlement on Palestinians and Arabs.
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15 August 2014, 20:42
Nasrallah: The third part of this plan was attacking the Palestinian resistance in Gaza and this was to be achieved before the end of 2006.
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15 August 2014, 20:40
Nasrallah: And after ending the resistance in Lebanon and based on reports that Syria provided it with weapons, Israelis continued their plan by attacking Syria and creating a new regime allied with the U.S.
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15 August 2014, 20:39
Nasrallah: It turned out that the July assault was part of a plan that aimed at ending and exterminating the resistance in Lebanon, not disarm it only.
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15 August 2014, 20:38
Nasrallah: It is enough to remember former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's statement on this war producing a new Middle East.
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15 August 2014, 20:37
Nasrallah: A lot has been said about the July war, lectures were given and books were given to discuss it... This war remained a case study because it was a real war with political and historical dimensions that transcend Lebanon and Palestine to influence the entire region.
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15 August 2014, 20:35
Nasrallah: I salute the fighters who bravely fought and moved the battle to the enemy's grounds. They forced the enemy to seek the help of its American masters. And then we witnessed the historical holy victory.
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15 August 2014, 20:34
Nasrallah: We thank those who did not skimp in providing us with any type of support, particularly Syria and Iran.
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15 August 2014, 20:33
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a speech commemorating the July 2006 war “victory": We salute all the resistance's martyrs of all parties and groups and people who died, and the martyrs of the army, security forces, the media... We salute all the wounded...
15 August 2014, 20:50
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He also salutes the Iraqi resistance that ousted the american invaders:)))) Does he really know who was resisting the warmonger invaders! Revisionist and distorter par excellence!
15 August 2014, 21:57
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he is so scared and lonely and it shows on his face and in his words.
15 August 2014, 22:06
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incitement is similar to having a booby-trapped car
but president Bashar Assad thinks that it does not hurt to have both, right hassin?
(hint: Michel Samaha)
15 August 2014, 22:07
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We support a certain nominee and you know him. What are you waiting for?
umm quorum?
16 August 2014, 01:38
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Tric
The Hasbara agent on behalf of HA
A taqqiya practice faithfully
15 August 2014, 22:32
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Bllllllllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaase gabby14, don't speak about morality, it gives me headache coming from you !!!
15 August 2014, 23:22
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I am no fan of religion and religious leaders of any sort but, this man Mr. Nasrallah is a man of vision and he is 100% correct about ISIS.
If it wasn't for his militia taking the fight to Syria against these Wahhabi savages, they would have already captured most of Lebanon and would have slaughtered tens of thousands of Lebanese.
So, put your prejudice and bigotry aside and lift the veil of hate for a moment and reflect on the recent events in Syria and Iraq.
15 August 2014, 23:29
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We have been telling you and your criminal regime that ISIL is not a joke. When the Syrian rebels were about to eliminate ISIL, why did you and your criminal regime save them?
16 August 2014, 01:17
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Yes best speeches by the way flamethrower?
Hoping his taqqiya practice is concealed?
No matter what he says he must as a leader at war an obligation he must I'm mean he must practice taqqiya.
Can any one point out why they went to Syria, the reasons to go to Syria & the reasons why they continue to stay there.
His excuses have changed
Simple taqqiya is a righteous act a blessed act.
"though shall not lie"
16 August 2014, 01:25
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If I knew that Israel's reaction will be to this violence, I would not have kidnapped soldiers
Statement of Nassrallah
Mystic stop trying to divert by playing the blame game.
Taqqiya is a blessed act
16 August 2014, 01:29
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Bandoul
These principles these lies are actually put together in a simple word called taqqiya
16 August 2014, 02:10
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Hassan Nassrallah cares not about Lebanon or even syrias Bashar Assad.
His there cause of the directives from Iran.
16 August 2014, 03:54
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There is only ONE threat is you Hizbullah! Stop fooling the planet. If teh army cannot control small area how in God can take HA weapons?
16 August 2014, 05:37
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fine if he proposed arming the LAF by iran, you had a HA government for 3 years... why didn't he do it? Your answer: the M14 parliamentary majority wouldn't have it. You are a hopeless case of propaganda
16 August 2014, 06:27
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Nasrallah: U.N. Security Council resolution 1701 is useless and the UNIFIL troops are not doing anything.
But you were begging for 1701 back then.
16 August 2014, 06:35
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Stop using Palestine, stop using Christians, stop using Lebanon
16 August 2014, 06:39
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I love how you debate with facts, flamethrower. You are one of a kind and I always wait for your comments on every thread. Keep 'em coming!
16 August 2014, 06:41
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I wish that people would use their eyes to view the reality of what is happening to our country instead of waiting for Hassan to tell them what reality is. Reality and truth is what Hassan and Aoun dictate. Our army was decimated by Assad and his son Bashaar, not allowed to enter the South by HA and humiliated by Aoun. Low and behold, and out of the blue our army has suddenly become the focal point of Aoun and HA. Lies and deceit have become the order of the day, has our army really become the army of the Shiaa and the Lebanese to replace Hassans army, are we to believe what Hassan tells us.
16 August 2014, 10:53
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I love how you debate them with military facts and ballistic strategy, flamethrower.
16 August 2014, 11:25
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I didn't write the post hereabove. My username was stolen by....nanaharnet, believe or not ... i have evidence. Now i know that most of ''members'' are fake accounts this is what i was looking for - couldn't be so many idiots in one place (-:
16 August 2014, 16:00
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UNITY = CONCESSION
Nice to call for unity ad putting aside differences, but unity means all parties should make concessions. Here I am sure that HA wants the others only to make concessions and meet his agenda.
(The presence of HA did not prevent ISIL from expanding and reaching Lebanon.
HA claims loudly having stopped ISIS from reaching Beirut. Assuming this claim is true but the presence of HA in Syria/Iraq is causing the birth of local IS.
I salute a true call for UNITY by accepting other parties' differences and presenting some concession (not only expecting the others to go your way)
If HA is sincere in his call for unity (and putting differences aside) he should present his part of concession by withdrawing from Syria/Iraq to help moderate Sunnis in Lebanon ABORT the birth of local IS by supporting the army to control every square meter in Lebanon.
16 August 2014, 19:53
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Ummm... "Nasrallah: We welcome any help for the Lebanese army but troops must get real weapons." dude can you spare a brother a dime. Maybe Hassoun's Iranian paymasters can donate some "real weapons" to the Army instead of hizbuallah on a more regular basis. Wait a minute... the weapons are already here and with hizbullah. Hassoun can donate some of his "real weapons" to the army himself and maybe get a real job at the post office.
17 August 2014, 01:30
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Flamethrower is concealing his faith/religion.
Taqiyya is a form of religious dissimulation, a legal dispensation whereby a believing individual can deny his faith or commit otherwise illegal or blasphemous acts while they are at risk of significant persecution.
Now this illegal act means free to do anything I suppose
19 August 2014, 22:01
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Translation for what the Liar in Chief and leader of the Iranian Mercenary Terrorist Organization is saying: "These are my principals, if you don't like them, don't worry, I have many alternates to shove down your throat. I use these principles (lies) interchangeably in order to keep you dazed and confused and as far as possible from the truth as there is while I obey and execute the will of my masters in Iran."
