-- Chairs were set on the street, after thousands more than expected arrived.

-- At the entrance of the event.

Speech started:

1- Nasrallah: You've spoken well (in response to crowd chanting "Death to America.")

2- Nasrallah: Today we commemorate Soleimani and al-Muhandis, two great commanders, and their Iraqi and Iranian companions who were martyred in this recent crime.

3- Nasrallah: The date of Soleimani's assassination is an inflection point in the history of the region, not just for Iran or Iraq. It is a new beginning.

4- Nasrallah: On a personal level, on Thursday night - January 2, 2020 - Soleimani achieved his own personal goal [to die as a martyr].

5- Nasrallah: This was his wish since he was a young man, when he first fought on the frontlines in Iran.

6- Nasrallah: For Soleimani and Muhandis, their desire to attain martyrdom only increased with their age.

7- Nasrallah: When we would meet, he would cry when thinking of the martyrs, and he would tell me he craved greatly to join them. Now, he has achieved this wish.

8- Nasrallah: I direct myself to Soleimani's family - what should console you is that Soleimani achieved his desire. You know this more than me, that this was his goal and desire.

9- Nasrallah: Same applies to Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. He visited me here in Beirut two months ago, told me to pray for him that he would also achieve martyrdom.

10- Nasrallah: Desire for martyrdom flips the balance of power between us and the enemy. The enemy's highest punishment against us is to kill us, but our highest desire is to be martyrs. So, we cannot be defeated.

11- Nasrallah: When we are victorious, we are victorious. When we are martyred, we are also victorious.

12- Nasrallah: 1) What happened - on Thursday night, Soleimani and companions openly left Damascus Airport to Baghdad Airport. Muhandis and PMF officials were waiting them there. After entering their convoy, they were soon targeted by missiles by U.S. planes.

13- Nasrallah: The two leaders were martyred, and others were killed, and their bodies were so mangled that they could not be distinguished or identified. They ended without a head like Hussein, without hands like Abbas.

14- Nasrallah: Shortly after, the US DoD issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attack on orders from President Trump - and subsequent statements by U.S. officials, all the way to Trump who boasted of ordering the strike w/justifications that were all lies.

15- Nasrallah: Responsibility for this crime is therefore obvious. Trump - the US president - ordered the US military to carry out this crime, and therefore a US force carried it out.

16- Nasrallah: 2) Why carry out this crime so brazenly and openly? A. Failure of all previous anonymous assassination attempts against Soleimani - including recent attempt in Kerman, planned by the devilish American and Israeli mind.

17- Nasrallah: at the time, they were willing to kill 5,000 people attending a Husseiniyah to guarantee killing Soleimani. God, however, protected him.

18- Nasrallah: So, their clandestine failure let to this brazen attack B. The regional circumstances and future U.S. Presidential elections.

19- Nasrallah: Trump declared a foreign policy upon assuming presidency. But, looking back at his 3 yrs, he had nothing but failure to show to the American people, as he is heading toward the elections.

20- Nasrallah: Trump's main focus was on Iran, in other words bringing down the regime in Iran. John Bolton said this - but this wasn't his personal policy. He was expressing Trump's worldview.

21- Nasrallah: At the very least, Trump wanted what he called "changing Iran's behavior," subduing Iran, and arriving at a new nuclear and regional deal, but Iran did not respond.

22- Nasrallah: He imposed unprecedented sanctions on Iran and tried to stoke internal strife in Iran, etc. but it all failed. So, he's heading toward elections without any accomplishments vis-a-vis Iran.

23- Nasrallah: Worse than that, he tasked European leaders to ask Rouhani for a meeting, which Rouhani rejected.

24- Nasrallah: Second, U.S. failure in Syria, which culminated in his betrayal of his allies, friends - call them what you will - in the SDF, and flip-flopping on withdrawing U.S. forces from Syria.

25- Nasrallah: finally ending w/decision to keep US forces in Syria to protect not his allies, but Syrian oil, to steal it. And, on Israeli request, to keep force in Tanf.

26- Nasrallah: Third Trump's failure against the Resistance in Lebanon, despite all their efforts - including Pompeo's visits, and Satterfield's visits.

27- Nasrallah: Satterfield during his last visit threatened Lebanese officials that if Beirut did not dismantle Hezbollah installations in the Bekaa, Israel would bomb it and Lebanon would be sanctioned, etc.

28- Nasrallah: Fourth, total failure in Yemen, which is primarily an American war.

29- Nasrallah: Fifth, they've also failed in Afghanistan.

30- Nasrallah: Sixth, the Deal of the Century, which he wanted to accomplish in his first yr of Presidency and impose on Arabs and Palestinians - where is it? Who even talks about it?

31- Nasrallah: Trump recognizes no int'l law or standards. Look at what he said during his presidential campaign - that he wanted Iraqi oil, to get back all the money US spent on the region and Iraq.

32- Nasrallah: He said he would take over Iraqi oil by deploying forces to seize oil fields, then extract,sell the oil. So Trump's plan all along has been to seize Iraq's oil, and he doesn't want an Iraqi state to prevent it, or at least to have an Iraqi state subject to US diktat.

33- Nasrallah: They used excuse of ISIS to return to Iraq, reestablish their bases, especially near Iraqi oil fields, and then to sell Iraq weapons, intervene in its sovereign decision-making, and weaken Iraqi state.

34- Nasrallah: But in Iraq, Trump also failed. 1st, Iraqi people - supported by Najaf - moved to end war w/ISIS quickly, depriving US of excuse to remain. This is where Soleimani, and Muhandis/PMF came in - ending ISIS war quickly, and taking away US excuse.

35- Nasrallah: Voices then began calling for US forces to leave, since their excuse to be there was ISIS.

36- Nasrallah: Then, in the last parliamentary elections, the political current that opposes American presence won a majority. U.S. tries to classify them as subject to Iran, but this isn't true.