روداو: «نُجَباء و حزب‌الله» دوقلوهای جداناپذیر مقاومت هستند

Rudaw: al-Nujaba and Hezbollah are inseparable twins of Islamic Resistance

In a report on its website, the Rudaw Media Network wrote, “Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the al-Nujaba are like twins of the Islamic Resistance that cannot be separated from each other.”

According to the Communication and Media Affairs Centre of al-‎Nujaba in Iran‎, the website of the Rudaw Media Network published a report in English on October 23, 2017, regarding the pretext of stationing a brigade of the twelfth division of al-Nujaba in the Iraqi border town of Rabi’ah and addressed the role of this Islamic Resistance group in the region.

Although the media network officially belongs to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and broadcasts its programs from Erbil, by describing the Iraqi fighters as a “militia,” al-Nujaba announced that the forces had been deployed on the Iraqi-Syrian border by expelling Peshmerga troops from Rabi’ah.

The source said in the report, Sayyid Hashim al-Musawi, the official spokesman of al-Nujaba, stated that the purpose of deploying his forces in Rabi’ah was to prevent the destruction of villages and the displacement of people, while on October 16, 2017, the Kurdistan Regional Security Council  had warned that Shi’ah forces are being sent to the borders of the Kurdistan Region.

The Kurdish media network said that the al-Nujaba Special Forces have been sent to the region and added, “al-Nujaba consists of Iraqi forces that have close ties to Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon and are active in both Syria and Iraq.”

Rudaw described al-Nujaba as “one of the most important military forces in Iraq” and citing a special Reuters report on the Islamic Resistance group last month, it accused al-Nujaba of trying to create a “Shi’ah crescent.”

It goes on to say, “This is the Shi’ah crescent to connect Tehran to Damascus and Hezbollah calls this route the ‘Axis of Resistance.’”

The network close to Nechirvan Barzani [the president of Kurdistan Region] stated, “Hezbollah and the al-Nujaba are like twins of the Islamic Resistance that cannot be separated from each other.”

As the American newspaper Long War Journal wrote, Sayyid al-Musawi said in March that “the responsibility for the blood of Hezbollah shed in Iraq lies with us as long as we live.”

At the end of the report, the network once again emphasized the close relations between the leaders of al-Nujaba and the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, noting, “The group strongly praises Qasem Soleymani, the commander of Iran’s Quds Force who was a military adviser to Shi’ah forces under the Popular Mobilization Forces.”