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Hezbollah Chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah made a televised speech Wednesday, meant to refute reports suggesting he was gravely ill and receiving treatments in Iran. The speech was aired on Hezbollah's television station, Al-Manar. Nasrallah said that he "Didn't wish to interrupt the viewers," and he only came on the air "To refute the rumors that were spread over the past two days, that have left a negative impression.

The Turkish Anatolia News Agency reported Tuesday that Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah became ill a few days ago, was admitted to a private hospital in Beirut and later flown to Tehran, this after a number of Lebanese news outlets reported over the past 24 hours that Nasrallah was diagnosed with cancer and is being treated in Iran. The reports have not been confirmed. The Turkish news agency quoted "knowledgeable sources affiliated with Hezbollah" as saying that Nasrallah was flown to Iran after being released from a hospital in south Beirut. His flight left from the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, they said.

Hizbullah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah told a Lebanese interviewer Monday his group does not have chemical weapons, and will not use them. One of the primary concerns facing Israel has been the disposition of Syria's massive arsenal of chemical and other weapons.

Iran could strike US bases in the Middle East in response to any Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities, the leader of Lebanon's Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah said on Monday. "A decision has been taken to respond and the response will be very great," Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in an interview with the Beirut-based Al Mayadeen television.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah marked his 52nd birthday last week, and 7,000 Facebook users joined an event opened on the social network in celebration of his special day. The Facebook event was organized by several of Nasrallah's young fans. According to Lebanese newspaper As-Safir, the page was quickly flooded with greetings in honor of the Hezbollah chief's birthday.

The leader of Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah said his group will transform the lives of millions of Israelis to "hell" if Israel attacks Lebanon. Speaking in a televised speech marking Jerusalem Day on Friday, Hassan Nasrallah said Hezbollah has a list of Israeli targets that it can hit with few rockets. "I tell the Israelis that you have a number of targets, not a large number ... that can be hit with precision rockets ... which we have." He said he would not name the targets and did not say whether the rockets were newly acquired weapons.

Kuwaiti media is reporting that Tehran is concerned over the safety of the Secretary General of Hezbollah arch terrorist Hassan Nasrallah after the expected fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the spiritual leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has demanded that Nasrallah come to Iran out of fear that there will be assassination attempts on Nasrallah’s life in the event that Syria’s opposition takes power.

Lebanese newspaper Al-Jounhouria reported Wednesday that Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah contacted Syrian President Bashar Assad after last week's terrorist attack in Damascus and offered to meet him in Lebanon and help with reinforcements. The report has not been confirmed. Meanwhile, Russia accused the US of trying to justify terrorism against the Syrian government and berated Western nations it said had failed to condemn a bomb attack that killed senior security officials.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said on Monday that Israeli-Palestinian negotiations were doomed to fail, and called on Muslims and Christians to take Jerusalem from Israel. “Every Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and Christian has a national, popular, and ethical responsibility towards Al-Quds (Jerusalem). It demands seriousness and action from all of us," Nasrallah said at a forum entitled “Declaration of Al-Quds as the capital of Palestine, the Arabs and Muslims,” according to Hezbollah-affiliated media outlet Al Manar.

Syrian theater actress Mai Skaf has waged an online war against Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah over his support for embattled president Bashar Assad and demanded that he return the 100,000 liras she had collected "for our Lebanese brethren who fled the July 2006 war to Syria." The famous actress, 43, wrote on her Facebook page that during the war with Israel she bought Lebanese nationals "TV sets and satellite dishes to follow what was happening in their country, and bought their children shoes and pajamas.” "Now I am telling Hassan Nasrallah that I regret doing that and I want him to either withdraw his thugs from Syria or give me back my money,” she said.     Hezbollah responded by saying that Nasrallah asked his aides to contact the actress's associates in order to get details about the money she donated and the items she bought for refugees from southern Lebanon during the war. “Hezbollah will return the exact amounts and the items to the a...

Iran's state-owned news agency published an exclusive interview Sunday with the father of Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah. Abu-Hassan Nasrallah, 75, told an IRNA reporter who visited the parents in their Beirut home that his son, whom he calls Sayyid Hassan, comes around about once a year.

The Hezbollah has prepared a list of targets the Lebanese militia would hit in the event that the group's leader Hassan Nasrallah or other top officials would be assassinated by Israel, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai reported on Tuesday.

Another Shoah-denier? Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah urged followers Friday to impart the legacy of Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon similarly to "what Israel does with the Holocaust, whether it indeed happened or not."