Qaouq: Lebanon Will Never Be under Saudi Tutelage
A senior Hizbullah official stressed Sunday that Saudi Arabia will never be able to bring Lebanon under what he described as its “tutelage.”
“Lebanon will never be under Saudi tutelage and anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional,” said Sheikh Nabil Qaouq, the deputy head of Hizbullah's Executive Council.
“We must confront the crimes and sins of the House of Saud (the kingdom's ruling family), because they have committed a great sin by launching ties and contacts with the Israeli entity,” Qaouq said.
“The greatest condemnation against them is that (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu described Saudi Arabia two days ago as an ally of Israel,” he added.
Turning to Lebanon, Qaouq asked Saudi-backed al-Mustaqbal movement about its stance on Saudi Arabia's alleged “contacts and ties with Israel.”
“We also ask al-Mustaqbal about its continuous support for the Israeli-backed armed gangs in Syria and it is our right to ask its media outlets about their labeling of Daesh's attacks on (Syria's) Deir Ezzor as rebel attacks,” Qaouq added, using the Arabic acronym of the Islamic State group.
“They did the same in the past during Daesh's assault on Iraq's Mosul, which indicates that there is insistence on covering up for Daesh's crimes in Iraq and Syria,” the Hizbullah official charged.
He also accused Mustaqbal's media outlets of “desperately attempting to conceal Saudi Arabia's crimes in Yemen, Syria and Iraq.”
“The Saudi regime is paying money to its tools in Lebanon with the aim of inciting against the resistance (Hizbullah), because it has exposed their crimes and managed to foil the major takfiri schemes in the region,” Qaouq added.
A Saudi-Iranian war of words has been raging for several weeks now after Riyadh executed prominent Shiite dissident Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr and angry Iranian protesters torched the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
The tensions between Riyadh and Tehran have led to an exchange of tirades in Lebanon between Saudi Arabia and Iran's main allies in the country – Mustaqbal and Hizbullah.
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