Iran Press/Middle East: The secretary-general of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, said in an address to his supporters in a televised speech at Sayed al-Shohadaa Complex in the Lebanese capital city of Beirut on Tuesday evening that Washington cannot be trusted at all as it betrays its own allies in a surreptitious way and often abrogates the treaties and agreements that it has signed, walking away from its obligations.
“No one can rely on (the United States of) America and an agreement struck with it because of the latter’s disloyalty and treachery,” Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah added according to Lebanon's Al-Manar television channel.
Nasrallah then pointed to President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw US forces from northeastern Syria, saying: “America broke faith with Kurds at once, and abandoned them. Such a fate awaits anyone who trusts Washington.”
“Americans can’t be trusted at all since they break their promises, betraying those who depend on them, and often abandoning them,” the Hezbollah chief said.
White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement on Sunday that Washington had begun withdrawing US troops from Syria's border with Turkey, adding that the American forces “will not support or be involved in the (Turkish) operation” and “will no longer be in the immediate area.”
Trump on Monday defended the decision to withdraw US troops from northern Syria, saying it was too costly to keep supporting its allies.
“The Kurds fought with us but were paid massive amounts of money and equipment to do so. They have been fighting Turkey for decades,” he said in a series of tweets.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on the same day that the Turkish army was ready to launch operations against militants of the People's Protection Units (YPG), the backbone of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), at any moment.
“There is a phrase that we always say: we can come any night without warning,” the Turkish president told reporters in televised remarks. “It is absolutely out of the question for us to further tolerate the threats from these terrorist groups.”
The Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem who delivered a speech at the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sep. 29, called the US and Turkey's actions in Syria as an occupation.
The United States began pulling troops back from the northeast Syria border on Monday, opening the way for a Turkish strike on Kurdish-led forces. A move that U.S. President Donald Trump hailed as a bid to quit endless wars.
"Turkey, Europe, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Russia, and the Kurds will now have to figure the situation out," Trump said in a twitter message.
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