Ali Al-Amin Snaps Back at Hezbollah over Iran

Shiite cleric Ali Al-Amin. File photo
Shiite cleric Ali Al-Amin. File photo
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Ali Al-Amin Snaps Back at Hezbollah over Iran

Shiite cleric Ali Al-Amin. File photo
Shiite cleric Ali Al-Amin. File photo

Anti-Hezbollah Shiite cleric Ali Al-Amin rebuffed accusations of normalization with Israel, saying that recent campaigns against him were the result of his rejection of the Iranian project that Hezbollah was importing to Lebanon and the region.
 
“Treason campaigns against me by Hezbollah are not new and are due to my rejection of the Iranian project they carry to Lebanon and the region,” Amin said during a press conference on Wednesday.
  
The Shiite cleric participated in a conference of religions in Bahrain attended by Jewish clerics from the occupied land, as he said. His participation prompted the Supreme Islamic Shiite Council in Lebanon to take a decision to isolate him from the Jaafari Fatwa department because he “sought to inflame internal strife among the Lebanese, and because of his normalization vision with the occupation.”
 
Hezbollah also denounced the participation of Amin in the forum, which the movement said was attended by “Zionist figures”. It also accused the cleric of seeking to “normalize” ties with Israel.
 
“I took part in the forum without knowing the participants’ names,” Amin said, noting the event was also attended by Lebanon’s ambassador to Bahrain.
 
He stressed that he didn’t hold any meetings with Jewish figures who attended the second day of the conference.

“I was not aware of their presence in advance,” he underlined. “I will remain opposed to Hezbollah’s policy of oppression and domination.”

The policies of Hezbollah and Amal movement “only bring harm to the Shiite community,” he told reporters.
 
“My disagreement with Hezbollah and Amal is not new, and I will remain supportive of the Lebanese people’s uprising,” Amin added.



Iranian Revolutionary Guards Officer Killed in Syria, SNN Reports

FILE PHOTO: Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards participate in a military parade, in Tehran September 21, 2008. REUTERS/Caren Firouz
FILE PHOTO: Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards participate in a military parade, in Tehran September 21, 2008. REUTERS/Caren Firouz
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Iranian Revolutionary Guards Officer Killed in Syria, SNN Reports

FILE PHOTO: Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards participate in a military parade, in Tehran September 21, 2008. REUTERS/Caren Firouz
FILE PHOTO: Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards participate in a military parade, in Tehran September 21, 2008. REUTERS/Caren Firouz

Iranian Revolutionary Guards Brigadier General Kioumars Pourhashemi was killed in the Syrian province of Aleppo by "terrorists" linked to Israel, Iran's SNN news agency reported on Thursday without giving further details, Reuters reported.

Militants led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham on Wednesday launched an incursion into a dozen towns and villages in northwest Aleppo province controlled by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Also, Russian and Syrian war planes bombed the opposition-held northwest Syria near the border with Türkiye to push back the insurgent offensive.
The attack was the biggest since March 2020 when Russia, which backs Assad, and Türkiye, which supports the opposition, agreed to a ceasefire that ended years of fighting that uprooted millions of Syrians opposed to Assad's rule.
In its first statement since the surprise campaign, the Syrian army said it had inflicted heavy losses on what it described as terrorists who had attacked on a wide front.
The army said it was cooperating with Russia and unnamed "friendly forces" to regain ground and restore the situation to what it was.
The militants advanced almost 10 km (6 miles) from the outskirts of Aleppo city and a few kilometres away from Nubl and Zahra.
They attacked al-Nayrab airport east of Aleppo, where pro-Iranian militias have outposts.