Syria’s regime is no longer in danger of being toppled and the risk of the country being divided has passed, the head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah said in remarks published April 7.
Hassan Nasrallah’s comments to the al-Safir daily come as his Shiite movement is increasingly involved in the conflict in neighbouring Syria, where they are fighting alongside President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.
“In my opinion, the phase of bringing down the regime or bringing down the state is over,” he told the newspaper in an interview.
“I think we have passed the danger of division” of the country, he added. “They cannot overthrow the regime, but they can wage a war of attrition,” the Hezbollah chief said.
Nasrallah also said he believed supporters of the uprising were tempering their expectations for an opposition defeat of the regime. “The regional and international situation has changed,” he said.
“In my view, the pressure on the regime in the coming phase will be less than in the past three years, in terms of political pressure, media pressure and pressure on the ground,” he added, Hurriyet informs.
