There would be no resistance to Israel in the region without Iran: Lebanese scholar

A Lebanese Islamic scholar says without the support of Iran, it would not have been possible for Lebanon or Palestine to defend themselves from the Israeli regime since October 7.

Hussain Makke, who is based in southern Lebanon in a heartfelt post on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday that the Islamic Republic has done for Palestine what no other Muslim country has.

“Iran has sacrificed for decades what no other country in the region has - not Egypt, Saudi, Morocco, Jordan, UAE, or any state globally - in solidarity with Palestine,” Makke wrote.

“It has suffered a great deal economically as a result but continued nevertheless.”

His remarks came amid the Israeli regime’s indiscriminate attacks on Lebanon, from south to the capital Beirut, which have already claimed the lives of dozens and injured thousands.

Tens of thousands of people have been displaced in southern Lebanon in the wake of the Tel Aviv regime’s fresh aggression. Makke has also lost his home.

“I am Lebanese and I live in South Lebanon. We have lost our families, friends, teachers and homes over the past year as our people proudly stood in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Palestine,” the scholar tweeted.

“I taught my daughter to clap every time we heard a bomb that echoed through our house so that she no longer fears the noise, an almost daily occurrence.”

He said the Lebanese people have offered exemplary sacrifices for the “just and noble cause” of occupied Jerusalem al-Quds and for “speaking truth in the face of a tyrant (Israel).”

“And I declare that this would not have been possible - neither for Lebanon to defend itself adequately nor for Palestine to defend itself adequately for an entire year - without Iran.”

 Makke said the Lebanese people are “prepared to give everything for Palestine despite where we come from, what flag represents our nation and what denomination of Islam we belong to, because that is what Allah wills.”

“In the same way that people have been commenting all year that Palestine was abandoned (including criticizing the Lebanese resistance when even the Palestinian resistance didn't do that, the same resistance not accepting a ceasefire without Gaza) now people will comment that the Lebanese resistance has been abandoned by its allies, whilst they themselves do not say nor believe this,” he commented in a lengthy post.

“It is not farfetched to say there would be no resistance to Israel in the region without Iran. There is only unity and strength here and complete faith and trust in brotherhood. Not every role of every state should be known and rightly so.”

He said he “no longer has a home” and is ready to “sacrifice much more” on the path to al-Quds – “the same path that Iran has done the most to pave the way for.”

“I continue to pray we all unite together in true brotherhood as one Ummah. That is the only way,” Makke stressed.

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