The assassination of Qassem Soleimani was a “great blow” that put the United States on the path to leaving Iraq.

Saudi Arabia Today News Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday that the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian Quds Force, put US forces on the path to exit. from Iraq, he said.

In a speech on the first anniversary of Soleimani’s death, Nasrallah added: “The United States’ departure from the region would not have become a slogan had it not been for this historic incident and its magnitude … the incident put US forces on the way out of Iraq. ”

Nasrallah admitted that Soleimani’s assassination “was a great blow and the loss was very great, and the axis of resistance absorbed it.”

And on January 3 last year, Soleimani was killed, along with the deputy of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, in a US drone attack near the Baghdad airport.

Nasrallah said that on the anniversary of Soleimani’s assassination, “the region lives in a state of great tension, and for any incident that we don’t know where to take the region, the Americans are at the very least in a state of anxiety and fear, and the brothers in Iran assume that Trump could prepare for something before his departure. ”

The Lebanese Hezbollah leader added: “Iran does not ask its representatives or its loved ones. When Iran responds, it will respond as it did in Ain Al-Assad, in proportion to the nature of the incident. The assassination of nuclear scientist Fakhri Zadeh had place in a security operation. If Iran had wanted to respond, it would have responded in the first hours. ” .

Nasrallah said: “If the friends of Iran initiate something, then this is their decision, but what I want the friend, enemy and analyst to know is that Iran is not weak.”

Nasrallah emphasized that “what has been revealed so far about what Qassem Soleimani has done is little, there are things that it may not be appropriate to talk about now.”

The Hezbollah leader affirmed that “the resistance is what protects Lebanon against the Israeli enemy, within the golden equation, it is what protects, helps and preserves Lebanon’s sovereignty and rights, and this must be recognized.”

In the Lebanese context, Nasrallah said: “If someone feels that Lebanon has a presence on the map, then someone asks about Lebanon in Europe and America, about this resistance and these missiles … If there is a day when there is hope that there will be some money for us in Lebanon. Especially from the rich blocs in the south, it is blessed and the resistance missiles, and these missiles were handed over by Iran to the resistance, and Syria gave the resistance. ”

He claimed that the Iranian support provided to Hezbollah “is not conditional on the preservation of Lebanon’s sovereignty” and that Hezbollah’s decision is “independent.”

Regarding the naming of a protectorate in Lebanon by the name of Qassem Soleimani, Nasrallah considered that it is “natural to call some of our reserves by the name of Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, that is, people with a civilization that is it deals with the virtuous who supported and supported it, and with the loyalty to not equate us with the enemy and the friend who left “. According to.