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16 February 2016

●The "Haifa ammonia" speech

PartiesHezbollahIsrael / IDF

On 16 February 2016, on the anniversary of the martyred leaders, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah relayed an Israeli expert's warning that the ammonia tanks in Haifa (more than 15,000 tons) could kill tens of thousands if struck, and said a few rockets would make it like a nuclear bomb: "That means Lebanon today possesses a nuclear bomb", affirming that Israel only goes to war with a guarantee of quick victory and that "when we preserve this resistance we prevent war on Lebanon"; he accused Saudi Arabia and Turkey of seeking to bring down the Syrian regime and of easing the spread of ISIS and al-Qaeda in Aden. Israel later moved the tanks.

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