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Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday praised Iran”s vocal support for resistance movements, in an indirect jab to Arab countries, and called for "awareness" to U.S.-Zionist plans to create a Sunni-Shiite conflict in the region.
"No one is ashamed to say we have ties with Iran and that it supports us. In fact we are honored by its support. Iran”s voice today is the loudest against Israel and its agenda," he said.
He then asked: "Who else dares say what (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad said (about Israel) at the United Nations Durbin conference?
"Iran voices its support for the Palestinians in broad daylight, at a time when anyone who supports Palestine is dubbed a terrorist," he said.
Most of Nasrallah”s speech was focused on the need to raise awareness of attempts by the United States, Israel and some Arab countries to "keep the people in the dark" as to who their real enemy.
The real challenge is to raise awareness on the right of the Palestinians to return to their homeland and to identify the enemy is, he said.
"The resistance was able to clearly establish that the enemy is Israel and that the Israeli agenda, which is adopted in full by the United States, is the enemy," he said.
"Over the past years, there has been a joint U.S., Western and Israeli effort, in intersection with some Arab attempts, to create an imaginary enemy to divert the (Arab) nation”s attention from the real enemy," he added.
He said these forces sometimes presented the enemy in the form of "Iran, or Persian ambitions in the Arab lands, or (plans) to spread Shiite ideology and to create a Shiite crescent," he said. "These forces are still working hard to accomplish this issue," he cautioned.
He pointed to Israel”s reluctance to enagage in peace talks with the Arabs saying the new Israeli government was linking a two-state solution to Iran”s nuclear program.
"Netanyahu”s government is working jointly with the Arabs to resolve the Iranian nuclear file and then tackle the Palestinian issue," he said.
He also cautioned that Israel was taking advantage of positions in some Gulf states favoring cooperation with the Jewish state to "protect the Arab world from Persian Iran and Shiite ideology and to protect the Sunnis."
He said that the latest Zionist-American agenda in the region is to "create an Arab-Iranian and Sunni-Shiite conflict. If we succeed in foiling this plot then we will have put an end to diabolic U.S.-Zionist weapons in the region," he said.
Nasrallah welcomed "positive" statements by some Arab officials, notably Arab League chief Amr Moussa, saying that the real danger lies in the Israeli nuclear program not Iran”s.