?BEIRUT: Hezbollah? chief Sayyid Hassan ??Nasrallah? has said that his party was willing to defend holy shrines in Iraq, after the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham overrun large areas of the country.
We will do whatever we are asked to do, and will go wherever we have to be a As-Safir newspaper quoting source close to Nasrallah reported Wednesday.
We are ready to sacrifice martyrs in Iraq five times more than what we sacrificed in Syria, in order to protect shrines, because they are much more important than [the holy sites in Syria], Nasrallah said.
Gone are the times when it was allowed to destroy and desecrate our religious shrines in ?Najaf?, ?Karbala? and ?Samarra?.
However, he voiced his relief that as long as there is a man called Ayatollah Khamenei?, [our] leader, and as long as there is a resistance, Iraqi people and religious clerics, nothing will happen to our shrines in the world.
Faced with a militant offensive sweeping south toward Baghdad, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced the Iraqi government would arm and equip civilians who volunteer to fight, and thousands have signed up.
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