On this very day, April 13, 1975, Lebanon entered one of the darkest chapters in its history. What took place was not merely the start of a civil war—it was the launch of a sinister and calculated scheme designed to destroy Lebanon’s identity, shatter its national unity, and transform it into a battlefield for foreign powers and their agendas.
This day marked the beginning of a period of blood and fire. Lebanon was dragged into long, devastating conflicts that violated its sovereignty, spilled the blood of its people, and opened the gates to foreign interventions. The state collapsed, its institutions crumbled, and its independence was hijacked by occupation plots, regional conspiracies, and internal betrayals.
But the most important truth remains: that dark day in Ain El-Remmaneh area was not simply the outbreak of civil war—it was the launch of an evil masterplan to annihilate Lebanon’s very existence, dismantle its society, and erase its unique identity. The plotters, both domestic and foreign, believed they could engulf our small nation. But they were met by a people of unwavering resilience and a sacred land that cannot be desecrated.
The crisis began with the cold-blooded assassination of Lebanese citizen Joseph Abu Aasi in Ain El-Remmaneh area and the attempted assassination of Sheikh Pierre Gemayel, head of the Kataeb Party. This was no random incident—it was the opening move in a deliberate conspiracy led by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Backed by jihadist, leftist, Ba’athist, and Arab nationalist movements, and aided by certain Arab regimes, the PLO aimed to turn Lebanon into an alternative homeland for Palestinians at the expense of the Lebanese people.
Yet, the free Lebanese rose up—Christians and sovereign-minded patriots from all sects united in resistance. Despite massacres, betrayals, and isolation, they endured. The PLO was expelled. The project of turning Lebanon into a substitute Palestinian homeland was defeated. And the right to national decision-making was reclaimed by the Lebanese people. Lebanon proved then, as it does now, that it is immune to foreign domination and cannot be ruled by the axes of political Islam—be they Sunni, Shiite, or the demagogic left in all their branches.
With the collapse of the Palestinian scheme, the Syrian Ba’athist regime stepped in. Under the false banner of the “Arab Deterrent Force,” President Hafez al-Assad’s Syrian army invaded and occupied Lebanon. It spread terror, imposed a reign of assassinations, arrests, massacres, and forced displacements. Freedoms were crushed. The state was suffocated. And Lebanon entered a long, dark tunnel of Ba’athist tyranny.
But Lebanon is no ordinary land—it is a divine endowment. The Syrian occupation eventually collapsed under the weight of its crimes. The Cedar Revolution of 2005 forced Assad’s army into a humiliating retreat. Hope was rekindled that Lebanon could rise again.
Yet that hope was short-lived. In place of the Syrian occupier came a more insidious and dangerous one: the Iranian occupation, imposed through Hezbollah—the Khomeinist, jihadist, terrorist militia. Cloaked in the false garb of “resistance” and “liberating Palestine,” Hezbollah hijacked the state, usurped the right to war and peace, and bound Lebanon to the Iranian regime’s expansionist “Wilayat al-Faqih” project.
Hezbollah dragged Lebanon into needless wars, filled the graves of honorable Shiites with its victims, and shattered the dreams of a generation. It severed Lebanon’s ties with its Arab brothers and the world. On October 8, 2023, it opened a reckless war front with Israel under direct orders from Tehran—another war Lebanon never asked for. Thousands of lives were lost, homes destroyed, and regions devastated. In the end, Hezbollah suffered a historic and crushing defeat.
Now, on April 13, 2025, hope is reborn. The era of Hezbollah’s occupation and Iranization is nearing its end. After its catastrophic failures, Hezbollah has lost most of its leaders, strongholds, and legitimacy. Across the region, Iran’s militias in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Gaza are collapsing. The Assad regime has fallen. The Iranian expansionist project is in ruins. And the clerical regime in Tehran is now retreating, exposed and disgraced.
The Lebanese have always been a people of dignity and resistance—armed not with weapons of destruction, but with faith, hope, and a righteous cause. Their land is sacred. Their history is deeply rooted in the soil. Lebanon is not just a country; it is a divine inheritance. As the Old Testament says, it is the land of prophets, saints, and martyrs—protected by God. Those who seek to conquer it are destined to fall, because divine justice does not sleep.
We proclaim, with pride and certainty, that we have seen this divine justice with our own eyes. The PLO was expelled. The Syrian Ba’athists were humiliated and driven out. The Iranian regime and its militias are crumbling. Those who funded and abetted the occupations—whether in Yemen, Libya, or Somalia—have been scattered and broken. But Lebanon remains, sustained by its martyrs, its righteous people, and its unshakable faith.
To Hezbollah—the Persian, jihadist, terrorist militia—we say: your occupation has failed. Your weapons are a curse upon you. You are not a resistance but a mercenary militia in the service of a foreign regime. Lebanon is not yours. It never was, and it never will be.
In conclusion: because Lebanon is a sacred endowment to God, it will be liberated from the Iranian occupation. The Lebanese people, by God’s will, will prevail. The future belongs to them—not to any occupier, invader, or internal traitor. Eternal glory to our righteous martyrs who offered their lives with faith on the altar of freedom.
