Former MP Mansour: Prisoner Swap Victory for Hizbullah
Source: Alalam.ir, 2-7-2008
BEIRUT--The yet-to-be-concluded prisoner swap deal between Lebanon's Hizbullah movement and the "Israeli" regime proved the resistance group's "high credibility," a former member of the Lebanon's parliament said Wednesday.
Speaking to Alalam, Nazih Mansour said: "Being committed to its principles since establishment, the resistance movement proved that, despite efforts to swerve the deal against Hizbullah's interests, it will not leave its martyrs and prisoners."
The "Israeli" regime on Sunday approved a deal to hand over five Lebanese prisoners to Hizbullah in return for the bodies of two "Israeli" soldiers.
An undetermined number of Palestinians held in "Israeli" prisons will also be released as part of the deal mediated by Germany.
Hailing Hizbullah efforts in the prisoner exchange deal, Mansour said: "I hope political tussles would not affect the historic privilege that Hizbullah has made and the case will always be remembered as a national success for the Lebanese nation."
Asked about four abducted Iranian diplomats, he said that the case is still open and efforts must be made to make the fate of the diplomats clear.
The "Israeli" regime has been long accused of abducting four Iranian diplomats, then Charge d'Affaires to Lebanon Seyyed Mohsen Mousavi and his three companions, Ahmad Motevasselian, Kazem Akhavan and Taghi Rastegar who were kidnapped at a checkpoint in eastern Beirut in July 1982.
In an apparent reference to an earlier "Israeli" announcement that the four kidnapped Iranian diplomats were dead, the Lebanese politician said pronouncing the four Iranian diplomats dead, would not close the controversial case.
"Iran's intelligence reports show signs that the four diplomats are alive and that means the case is not closed," he added.
BEIRUT--The yet-to-be-concluded prisoner swap deal between Lebanon's Hizbullah movement and the "Israeli" regime proved the resistance group's "high credibility," a former member of the Lebanon's parliament said Wednesday.
Speaking to Alalam, Nazih Mansour said: "Being committed to its principles since establishment, the resistance movement proved that, despite efforts to swerve the deal against Hizbullah's interests, it will not leave its martyrs and prisoners."
The "Israeli" regime on Sunday approved a deal to hand over five Lebanese prisoners to Hizbullah in return for the bodies of two "Israeli" soldiers.
An undetermined number of Palestinians held in "Israeli" prisons will also be released as part of the deal mediated by Germany.
Hailing Hizbullah efforts in the prisoner exchange deal, Mansour said: "I hope political tussles would not affect the historic privilege that Hizbullah has made and the case will always be remembered as a national success for the Lebanese nation."
Asked about four abducted Iranian diplomats, he said that the case is still open and efforts must be made to make the fate of the diplomats clear.
The "Israeli" regime has been long accused of abducting four Iranian diplomats, then Charge d'Affaires to Lebanon Seyyed Mohsen Mousavi and his three companions, Ahmad Motevasselian, Kazem Akhavan and Taghi Rastegar who were kidnapped at a checkpoint in eastern Beirut in July 1982.
In an apparent reference to an earlier "Israeli" announcement that the four kidnapped Iranian diplomats were dead, the Lebanese politician said pronouncing the four Iranian diplomats dead, would not close the controversial case.
"Iran's intelligence reports show signs that the four diplomats are alive and that means the case is not closed," he added.
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