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    While The Lebanese Economy Collapsed, Hezbollah ‘Doubled’ Its Arsenal Of Guided Missiles

    By Rim ZreinDecember 29, 2020
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    As flawed policies and unprecedented crises have plunged Lebanon into its worst economic crisis since the civil war, the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah announced on Sunday that his party now has twice as many precision-guided missiles as it had a year ago.

    In an end-of-year interview with the Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV, Hassan Nasrallah said that, for the past year, his party has doubled the number of its precision missiles to strike anywhere in Israel and occupied Palestinian territories, stressing that Israel’s efforts to prevent it from acquiring the missiles have failed.

    Just yesterday, Nasrallah claimed that, despite Israeli efforts, Hezbollah had doubled its inventory of precision-guided missiles over the past year. This raises another issue: The vulnerability of Masyaf may have hastened Hezbollah to build its own missile factories in Lebanon.

    — Tobias Schneider (@tobiaschneider) December 28, 2020

    So during the same time, Lebanese residents are going hungry due to the collapsing economy, thrusting more than half the population under the poverty level, Hezbollah has been working on perfecting the power of his party’s precision-guided missiles.

    Really? A year where the Lebanese have seen hell, and their ‘Resistance’ leader organizes an interview in honour of an assassinated general of another state?

    As deplorable it is, surely what’s been done to Lebanon just on August 4th alone is of far more precedence.

    #نصرالله

    — MΛX (@Max_Arcastor) December 28, 2020

    “When Israel threatened through a U.S. official to target a Hezbollah facility in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa region, we warned them that we would retaliate for any such attack,” Nasrallah said.

    In 2019, Israel accused Hezbollah of setting up a factory for precision-guided missiles in the Bekaa valley.

    According to Reuters, the Israeli military said that Hezbollah, with Iranian assistance, had been bringing specialized equipment to a weapons factory near the Bekaa village in order to set up a production line for precision-guidance missiles.

    #Hezbollah leader Hassan #Nasrallah says the group doesn't have precision missile factories; #Israel & @IDF say they do. Nabi Chit is 1 of a string of towns & villages in the Bekaa Valley off the highway to Baalbek. It was the hometown of former Hezbollah leader Abbas Moussawi. https://t.co/IxVQTv3ZxL

    — Lizzie Porterلِيزي بورتر (@lcmporter) September 3, 2019

    However, Nasrallah is refuting Israel’s allegations, saying during the four-hour interview that there are many matters related to his party that Israel has no knowledge of because they are kept in a “very tight circle.”

    Nasrallah also mentioned that the last few weeks of the administration of US President Donald Trump are critical and must be treated with care. He referred to Trump as “angry” and “crazy.”

    In a new interview with Al-Mayadeen TV, Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has complained that U.S. President Donald Trump is "a lunatic who is in a state of severe madness… even the Republican and Democratic leaderships are worried about what he could do."

    — Evan Kohlmann (@IntelTweet) December 28, 2020

    When discussing the up and coming US administration of president-elect Joe Biden, Nasrallah noted that Iran would not negotiate with the US on behalf of its allies or discuss conflicts in the region.

    He said Tehran would talk with Washington only about the Iranian nuclear deal.

    #Breaking #Nasrallah: “Everyone who participated in ordering and implementing the assassination of #Soleimani and alMuhandis, including #Trump, must be punished wherever they are, and are a target for every free person. A response to the assassination is a matter of time.”

    — Harun Elbinawi (@HarunaNAbdullah) December 28, 2020

    Sitting with a picture of Qassem Suleimani to his left, Nasrallah repeatedly vowed that Iran and its supporters will avenge the US killing of the commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Quds Force, in a drone attack a year ago in Iraq.

    “That revenge is coming no matter how long it takes,” he told Al-Mayadeen TV.

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