Qaouq Says Hizbullah Won't Change Policies after Iran Nuclear Deal

A senior Hizbullah official announced Sunday that the nuclear deal that was recently reached between Iran and the top world powers will not push the Tehran-backed party to change its policies.

“Hizbullah will remain the same after the Iranian nuclear agreement. Today, tomorrow and everyday it will be the party of resistance that supports Palestine and protects Lebanon from every threat, be it Israeli or takfiri,” Sheikh Nabil Qaouq, the deputy head of the party's Executive Council, declared.

“This is our pledge that we will not change,” he added.

Qaouq vowed that Hizbullah “will continue the battle that it launched to protect our villages and people in Lebanon from the takfiri gangs.”

“The resistance will carry on with what it had started in the outskirts of (the northeastern border towns of) Arsal and Ras Baalbek and (Syria's) Qalamoun and Zabadani,” he added, referring to the party's battles with Syria-based militants.

“We will not ask anyone or seek anyone's approval or permission. All this sectarian noise, screaming and incitement will not change the resistance's decision to press on with this battle against the takfiri terrorism until victory,” Qaouq went on to say.

On July 14, the P5+1 group -- Russia, the U.S., China, Britain, France and Germany -- struck a landmark agreement with Iran after a 13-year stand-off over its disputed nuclear program.

The international agreement finalized in Vienna aims to ensure the Islamic Republic does not obtain nuclear weapons. In exchange, the country of 78 million people will be given step-by-step relief from crippling international sanctions.

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