Monday, January 13, 2020

Nuggets

There's a lot going on in the latest Hassan Nasrallah speech -- not just the revelation that he reads the editorial cartoons in the Washington Post. Among many things, two to note here. First, Nasrallah makes an interesting claim about the fateful Soleimani trip to Baghdad: his ally, Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces Deputy Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, who was killed the same drone strike, advised him not to come --

why did Abu Mahdi go to the airport to receive Hajj Qassem [Soleimani]? Why? Knowing that he called and Hajj Qasim was present with us and called Abu Mahdi and said to him, Hajj, do not come to Baghdad, the atmosphere is tense, he said to him, No, I am coming, and he knows that the [climate] is tense, but he went to Hajj Qasim to the airport, I believe that God Almighty chose for these two beloved leaders, the two brothers who lived together and had an excellent and exceptional spiritual relationship to be martyred together,

Nasrallah also makes a claim about the Iraqi Kurdish president Masood Barzani demeanor during the early days of the ISIL expansion in 2014 that it clearly based on Soleimani --

I hope Mr. Masoud Al-Barzani to be thankful to [] Soleimani, who admitted Years ago ... when ISIS was close to Erbil, when the Kurdistan region almost fell into the hands of ISIS and [Barzani] contacted all your friends, but they did not help you, and you called the Iranians, so you came on the second day, by recognizing Hajj Qassem Soleimani and with him brothers, [] he was with him Brothers from Hezbollah also went with him to Erbil, and Hajj Qassem, who went to Erbil and my brothers who were with him, told me that Masoud Barzani was shivering, his hands trembling with fear. But the rapid presence of Hajj Qassem Soleimani and the Islamic Republic next to you is the one who removed this danger from you, which was unparalleled in your history in the Kurdish region.

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