beirut powerful lebanese group hezbollah say saturday iraqi kurdish independence vote mark first step toward partition middle east warn would lead internal war must oppose sayyed hassan nasrallah head iran-backed group say events northern iraq kurds overwhelmingly vote independence monday threat whole region iraq neighbor state kurdish populations open door partition partition partition nasrallah say add partition mean take region internal war whose end time frame know god nasrallah note group arch enemy israel come support kurdish statehood describe referendum part u.s.-israeli plot carve region unite state come opposition vote along major european state neighbor countries turkey iran government syria kurdish group establish autonomous regions also oppose referendum nasrallah speak supporters eve ashura shi ites commemorate slay prophet mohammad grandson imam hussein kerbala 680 ad hezbollah political military movement major player syrian conflict deploy thousands fighters support president bashar al-assad hezbollah fighters currently fight along iran-backed militias syrian army islamic state militants eastern syria daesh end matter time iraq syria nasrallah say use arabic acronym islamic state say counter attack mount islamic state eastern syria last two days expect group besiege add incapable recover grind hezbollah say kurdish vote step toward wide mideast partition