Iran Press/ Iran news: In his first televised interview on Tuesday, Major General Ghasem Soleimani stressed that for the first time almost all the Arab countries, of course, most of the Persian Gulf states supported Israel in the 33-Day War, and Egypt was included.
And other countries were no exception, but we could make some exceptions at that point as you know Iraq lacked sovereignty, Iraq was in the occupation of the Americans, The Syrian government, for the death of Hafez al-Assad was a young government that had just begun, so first time in the war against an Arabic organization All the Arab states supported Israel in the war. This is a fact, Mehr news agency reported.
In other part of his remarks, general Soleimani added: "We should consider three hidden factors with respect to the 33-Day war. First, the opportunity provided by the presence and reigning of the U.S. in Iraq, and the fear the extensive presence of the U.S. had caused in the region. Second, the willingness of Arab countries and their discreet announcement of cooperation with the Zionist Regime for obliterating Hezbollah and changing the demography in southern Lebanon. Third, the goals the Zionist regime pursued by taking advantage of this opportunity in order to get rid of Hezbollah forever."
"These three factors represented the main hidden goals or intentions that played a crucial role in the roots of this war," he added.
The Iranian top general reiterated: "I should say that the 33-day war had some hidden causes which were the principle factors leading to the war. The war had some apparent and some hidden causes, the pretext of which were the hidden goals that the [Zionist] regime sought for a period of time."
He continued: "If you look at the geopolitical position of Iraq, you will see that during the war in 2006, the 33-day war, the U.S. placed an obstacle in the country that linked the principle country of Resistance; an obstacle made up of an armed force of 200,000 troops, hundreds of planes and helicopters, as well as thousands of armoured vehicles. This naturally provided the opportunity for the Zionist regime to take advantage of this situation and take a measure."
"The Zionist Regime wanted to take advantage of this, thinking it was the best opportunity for a war; because the Israeli regime had suffered a defeat in 2000, and had retreated—or actually escaped—from Lebanon. Hezbollah had defeated it," general Soleimani added.
According to the Iranian general, the main goal was to completely change the demography so that the people living in southern Lebanon—who had some religious connections with Hezbollah—would be moved out of Lebanon.
"They made the Palestinians to leave southern Lebanon, and to be dispersed in different camps in Lebanon, Syria and other areas of the Arab world," general Soleimani said.
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