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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Report: Iran Commander Visited Lebanon, Asked Nasrallah Not to Provoke Israel

2020-12-01

[AlAhram] The new chief of Iran's Quds Force, General Esmail Ghaani, asked

Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
during a recent secret visit to Leb
Leb

...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
to "avoid provoking Israel," a media report said on Monday.

"Ghaani, who succeeded General Qasem Soleimani as the head of the Quds Force, the elite unit of Iranian Revolutionary Guards in charge of foreign operations, has paid a secret visit to the southern suburbs of Beirut in recent days and has spoken with (Hizbullah chief Sayyed) His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
and other political and military officials of the party," Lebanon’s French-language daily L'Orient-Le Jour reported.

"The Iranian official stressed the need to remain on alert for any eventuality, while telling his interlocutors that it was necessary to avoid any action that could be seen as escalation and exploited by Israel to launch a major operation," the newspaper added.

Two senior Iraqi Shiite politicians had recently told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named that Ghaani had visited Iraq in recent weeks to tell Iranian-backed Iraqi militia factions and Shiite politicians to avoid provoking tensions with the U.S. that could give an outgoing Trump administration cause to launch attacks in the U.S. president's final weeks in office.

Around that time, Nasrallah himself warned followers and allies to be vigilant during Trump's remaining time in power.

"All of us ... should be on high alert in these next two months so that it passes peacefully," Nasrallah said in televised remarks earlier this month even as he urged followers to "be prepared to face any danger, aggression or harm" and to respond in kind "if the U.S. or Israel's follies go that far."

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Lebanese media reports #Iran's #IRGC-QF Commander Esmail Ghaani visited #Lebanon to meet with #Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah & urged restraint against #Israel. Trip looks to have been pre-#Fakhrizadeh, as a part of visits to Damascus & Baghdad. 1/2https://t.co/iHMqstHYm6
— Jason Brodsky (@JasonMBrodsky) November 30, 2020

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