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Hezbollah much stronger than a year ago, Nasrallah claims
HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah claimed the Lebanese militant group has grown significantly stronger over the past year in an end-of-year interview.
Mr Nasrallah said the organisation has twice as many precision-guided missiles as a year earlier and could strike anywhere in Israel or Israeli-occupied Palestine.
He said the group still intended to seek revenge for the US killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guard leader Qassim Soleimani in an illegal drone killing in Iraq.
While Trump praises the ‘successful’ attack on Iranian nuclear sites, the question arises as to the real motives behind this escalation. MARC VANDEPITTE explores the issues