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Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said in a February 8, 2022 interview on Al-Alam TV (Iran) said that if Israel attacks Iran, Iran would retaliate directly in a hard and violent fashion, and not through its "friends" in the region. He said that since such a "stupid act" would have severe consequences, it is implausible for Israel to strike Iran. In addition, Nasrallah said that Israel cannot simply bomb Hizbullah's arsenal of precision missiles because they are stored in several locations and because Hizbullah has taken security measures to prevent this. He elaborated that all-out war would be necessary for Israel to effectively target Hizbullah's arsenal of precision missiles. Later in the interview, Nasrallah said that the U.S. embassy in Beirut is the CIA's main station in the entire Middle East, and that the CIA recruits Lebanese citizens to gather intelligence for Israel. He said that even though the U.S. says it does not negotiate with terrorists, it has for decades attempted to establish a "channel of communications" with Hizbullah, but that Hizbullah has rejected its overtures. He also accused the U.S. of having created, run, and cooperated with several terrorist organizations, including ISIS and Al-Qaeda.
Hassan Nasrallah: "Iran is not kidding. The Iranian Leader [Khamenei] and the Iranian officials have said that Iran would retaliate. Some people think that if Israel bombs Iran, the Islamic Republic will rely on its friends in the region.
"If the Islamic Republic is bombed by the Israelis, it will retaliate directly, and this retaliation will be hard, violent, and powerful.
"This is something that the Israelis know full well. This is why most of the people in the security and military circles oppose going to a military operation of this kind. In any case, I believe it is not plausible that the Israeli enemy would do such a thing, and if it does, it would prove to be a stupid act with severe consequences.
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"When [Israel] says that it wants to eliminate Hizbullah's precision missiles - does it know how many there are and where they are deployed? These missiles are not located in one single place - or even in two, three, or four - so that they can come and bomb them from the air, and that would be the end of it.
"The spread of the resistance's missile capabilities, the number of missiles, and the security measures that have been taken prevent them from carrying out such a thing. They are exaggerating when they talk about this to such an extent. When they say that they want to eliminate the accurate missiles of the resistance of Lebanon, it means that they will need a war. A military operation would not be enough.
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"Is [Israel] ready to go to real, full-on war?
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The U.S. Embassy in Lebanon is the CIA's main station in the region. Its [operations are] not limited to Lebanon. The [new] embassy they are building - they are not doing it just for Lebanon. They are building it for the entire region - Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Cyprus, maybe even further... There is a huge embassy in Iraq and a big embassy is being built in Lebanon.
"The role of the embassy is not limited to Lebanon. The security impact, the recruitment to the CIA, and the informants who work for U.S. intelligence - all this is endless.
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"The U.S. Embassy in Awkar recruits Lebanese citizens to gather military information needed by Israel, not by the CIA.
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"The Americans consider themselves to be pragmatic and realistic. They have a problem. They say: 'We do not negotiate with terrorists.' Well, they cooperate with terrorists, not just negotiate with them. They create terrorist organizations, run them, and cooperate with them. Trump admitted this and accused Obama and [Hillary] Clinton of creating ISIS, and Clinton herself admitted to creating Al-Qaeda.
"This entire story about not negotiating with terrorist organizations is complete nonsense. Even though they classify us as a terrorist organization, they have been making overtures for years - before [the Israeli withdrawal] in 2000 and after that, as well as after 9/11, and before 2006 and after 2006 and recently as well.
"There is always an attempt to open a channel of communication. This is not something we have any reason to brag about. We also do not need to prove our reliability. They have resorted to several channels. They approached us through someone, and we said 'no,' so they turned through someone else, and we also said 'no,' and so on... There were four or five attempts."
Interviewer: "They used mediators..."
Nasrallah: "Yes, of course. We have many mutual friends in Lebanon."
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