Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah had been exposed as a tool of Iranian expansionism, in an audio message posted online on Wednesday.
Zawahiri said that leader Hassan Nasrallah's public acknowledgement in late April that its fighters intervened in neighboring Syria in support of President Bashar Assad, a key Tehran ally, "tore off the mask he always hid behind... The jihadist uprising in Muslim Syria has exposed the ugly face of Hasan Nasrallah, the head of the rejectionist (Shiite) Safavid (Iranian) plan for Syria," the Al-Qaeda leader said. (AFP)
