A prominent Hezbollah leader revealed to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai that “the relationship was not friendly with Syria during the days of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. Hezbollah considers former Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam and the late Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan to be my godfathers.” Syrian policy in Lebanon. They were responsible for turning Assad - the father against the party, and describing him as a troublemaker who must be disciplined, which is what they tried to do.
The leader pointed out that Hezbollah did not feel insulted by the assassination of Imad Mughniyeh in Syria, which also did not feel embarrassed. Although Hezbollah believed that the principle of martyrdom was the friend of the first and second ranks of its leaders, it considered Syria to be a place It is safe, as there have never been assassinations or witnessed events of the kind that indicate the possibility of assassinations. This reassurance prompted the party and its cadres to consider Syria a place of rest that allows them to get away from the Lebanese lights and noise, and at the same time enables them to hold meetings with... Different forces, which was subject to a different evaluation immediately after the assassination of Mughniyeh in light of the party’s assessments that Israeli intelligence and its allies were no longer neutralizing Syria from the conflict.”
This leader recalled to memory what happened in February 1987 when the Syrian forces committed what is known as the Fathallah Barracks massacre, killing more than 20 men from Hezbollah. He noted, “As a result of that, Mughniyah was the first to want to discipline the Syrian army and capture its members, but... The Iranian leadership and the party leadership intervened to prevent the response. This is an example of the nature of the relationship at that stage,” noting that the matter changed years later.
