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Oct 29, 2024
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Lebanese Forces Official Ibrahim El-Sakr: I Am Asking The United States And International Community To Strike Iran's Top Leaders

#11528 | 01:57
Source: Online Platforms - "Spot Shot (Lebanon) on YouTube"

Lebanese Forces official Ibrahim El-Sakr stated in an October 29, 2024, appearance on Spot Shot on YouTube that he calls for the United States and the international community to strike and eliminate Iran’s top leaders. He claimed that countries under Iranian control—specifically Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Palestine, and Lebanon—have been destroyed. El-Sakr further noted that he does not wish to liberate Palestine or Jerusalem, insisting that it is the responsibility of all Muslims, and emphasized that he can visit the Vatican without needing to go to Jerusalem, where Christ walked.

Ibrahim El-Sakr: "So long as Iran is present in Lebanon, and its embassy serves as Hizbullah's operations room, we will continue to tread water. Iran is fighting Israel by means of Hizbullah in Lebanon, and it does not want to do a single thing in Iran itself. This is why I am asking the international community and the United States to strike the top leaders in Iran. They need to be eliminated so that we can breathe a sigh of relief. The top leaders in Iran need to be eliminated because the Iranians..."

 

Interviewer: "Are you calling on Israel to assassinate the top leaders in Iran?"

El-Sakr: "The U.S. and the international community. I was clear about this."

Interviewer: "But isn't it Israel that carries out America's wars on its behalf?"

El-Sakr: "No. America can do whatever it wants.

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"The nuclear negotiations between the U.S. and Iran will go nowhere, unless the Iranian top [leaders] are gone, because their mentality... I'll go even further. If we look at the countries controlled by Iran – Iraq has been destroyed, Yemen has been destroyed, Syria has been destroyed, Palestine has been destroyed, and Lebanon has also been destroyed. Why? Why are we supposed to carry Iran on our shoulders? Give me a break. There are no Muslims to liberate Jerusalem except here? Let all the Muslims liberate Palestine. We don't want to liberate it. We don't want Palestine. I don't want Palestine or Jerusalem."

Interviewer: "You don’t want the occupied lands back?"

El-Sakr: "I don't want anything. I want Lebanon. I don't want to liberate..."

Interviewer: "You don’t want to go to Jerusalem? Isn't it the right of every Christian to go there?"

El-Sakr: "I don't want to liberate it. I can go to the Vatican. Don't let them fool us with these slogans of going to Jerusalem and to the place where Christ walked."

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