BEIRUT: Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said he has met top Syrian opposition official Haytham Manna as well as other anti-Assad figures in a bid to help end the four-year-old civil war in neighboring Syria.
“I had already met, besides Syrian dissident Haytham Manna, a number of other opposition [officials] in an effort to contribute to a political solution to the Syrian crisis,” Nasrallah said in excerpts from a wide-ranging interview with pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Mayadeen.
The long interview with Ghassan Bin Jeddo is scheduled to be broadcasted Thursday evening.
Manaa is a Syrian writer and human rights activist who helped create and become spokesperson of the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change (NCC), one of the two main opposition groups active in the uprising that became a civil war in Syria.
Nasrallah revealed that a certain country involved in the Syria crisis has informed Russia of its readiness to accept any deal to end the conflict, “including the survival of the regime,” provided that Syrian President Bashar Assad is removed from power.”
That country, according to Nasrallah, does not mind that Assad be succeeded by a new president from the same Alawite sect to which Assad belongs.
Nasrallah denied that Hezbollah fighters were militarily exhausted in Syria.
“Contrary to what the enemy thinks,” Nasrallah warned, “the resistance is fully ready in southern [Lebanon], and is ready to face any possibility.”
In the interview, Nasrallah will name a powerful country supporting ISIS jihadists in Syria and Iraq.
On Lebanon, Nasrallah renewed support for Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun’s presidential nomination.
“Any talk on the presidential election must be with the general [Aoun],” Nasrallah stressed.
Nasrallah praised former Prime Minister Saad Hariri for engaging in dialogue with Hezbollah despite opposition by some Future Movement officials.
A third round of Hezbollah-Future talks is set for Friday.
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