Fatemiyoun Vows to Fight On Until ‘Annihilation of Israel’

Date: 15 August 2020 - 21:54

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MASHHAD (Dispatches) -- An Afghan resistance movement called the Fatemiyoun Brigade vowed on Friday to carry out its fight until the "annihilation of Israel” and creating the "new Islamic civilization.
The Fatemiyoun is made up of Afghans deployed to Syria to protect holy Shia shrines from foreign-backed attacks by Takfiri terrorists. They have been on the frontlines of military operations in support of the Syrian army to fight back the terrorists.
The resistance movement held its first "international conference” in this northeastern Iranian city on Friday in cooperation with Astan Quds Razavi, a bonyad which manages the holy Imam Reza Shrine and various institutions belonging to it.
The event was attended by members of the movement and their families. Sayyed Elias, known as the senior commander of the Fatemiyoun Brigade, was the keynote speaker at the gathering.
The senior Afghan commander vowed that in addition to helping liberate Al-Quds, the Fatemiyoun will carry out "jihad” toward creating the "new Islamic civilization”.
At the end of the conference, special messages were read to the participants from prominent Bahraini cleric Sheikh Issa Qassem, the cultural attaché of the Lebanese Hezbollah Sheikh Akram Barakat, as well as several commanders of the Fatemiyoun.
Likewise, Iraq’s al-Nujaba Movement said on Thursday the ultimate goal pursued by all resistance groups is to destroy the occupying regime of Israel and expel all American forces from the region.
"Our goal today is not limited to victories here or there; rather, our clear goal is the full destruction of Israel and expulsion of the US and its mercenaries from the entire region and Islamic countries,” said Nasr al-Shammari, the deputy secretary-general and official spokesman for Iraq’s Al-Nujaba Movement.
"In order to achieve this goal, we will avenge the cowardly assassination of resistance commanders, most importantly the martyred commander Hajj Qassem Soleimani,” he said.
He made the remarks in a video conference speech to the international conference inMashhad to commemorate martyrs of the Fatemiyoun Brigade.
Al-Shammari said the fighters of Fatemiyoun and other resistance forces in Iraq are taking the "hard revenge” every day, and that is what American forces witness today.
"These fighters will continue to struggle against the US with stronger resolve, greater experience and with technologies the enemy can’t counter,” he added.
He said the defeats currently suffered by the U.S. are an introduction to the ultimate humiliating defeat they and the Zionist regime will suffer.
"The enemy’s increased pressure … is what contributes to the realization of the resistance front’s goals and its great victory,” he said.
Al-Nujaba is part of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), an Iraqi government-sponsored umbrella organization composed of around 40 factions of volunteer counter-terrorism forces, including mostly Shia Muslims besides Sunni Muslims, Christians and Kurds.
In the early days of the Daesh’s reign of terror, the PMU fighters played a major role in reinforcing the Iraqi army, which had suffered heavy setbacks against the Takfiri elements.
In November 2016, the Iraqi parliament voted to integrate the PMU into the military amid U.S. efforts to sideline the group.