Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says US President Joe Biden is visiting the region with the aim of getting Saudi leaders to pump new crude supplies into the world oil market.
Faraan: “Biden primarily came to persuade the Persian Gulf countries to produce and export more oil and gas,” he said in a speech on the occasion of the outbreak of the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel.
Nasrallah said the United States is waging a war against Russia in Ukraine and has dragged with it all the countries of Europe which are beginning to suffer from it. “The United States cannot allow Russia to be victorious. Today, their first objective is to ensure an alternative to Russian oil and gas in Europe”.
Biden, Nasrallah said, is also in the region to ensure that the United States stands alongside Israel and its project of normalization with the Persian Gulf countries. “He has nothing to offer the Palestinian people.” The Hezbollah secretary general said a lot of hope and illusions are built around this visit, but the United States of today is not the same as it was in 2003 and 2006.
“Elderly President Biden, by his age and his gestures, is an image of an aging America,” Nasrallah said. He was speaking for the first time since the dispatch of drones to the area of the Karish field, which Israel claims is in its exclusive economic zone, but Lebanon contests it. Resistance, Nasrallah said, is the only force Lebanon has to obtain its right to oil and gas. “The capacities of the resistance today are unprecedented, the fighting spirit is higher than ever,” he said.
