Resistance’s 2006 victory over Israel defeated America’s Middle East project: Sayyed Nasrallah

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah says the resistance front managed to thwart America’s so-called Greater Middle East project through its victory in the 2006 war on Lebanon waged by the Israeli regime. 

Speaking at a televised address, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the 2006 war was a key part of America’s Greater Middle East project, which he said aimed to solidify Israeli dominance over the region under American influence.

Nasrallah made the address on the 17th anniversary of the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon.

He said the victory of the resistance front in 2006 also foiled the so-called Greater Israel Project, and put the regime on the decline.

Nasrallah said the 2006 war’s goal was to crush the Lebanese resistance and to subjugate Lebanon, but such goals were never realized and Israelis and the Americans both admitted the failure of the war on Lebanon on several occasions.  

He said the 2006 victory marked a defining moment in Lebanon’s history, shaping its destiny in the region for the years to come, adding that the victory also laid the groundwork for putting up deterrence that continues to exist to this day and has led to the erosion of Israeli deterrence.