Mustaqbal Says Nasrallah Remarks Reflect 'Anxiety', Urges Hizbullah to 'Reevaluate' Stances
Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc on Tuesday strongly condemned Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's “attacks and baseless accusations against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Cooperation Council states and the rest of Arab countries,” saying they reflect “anxiety and arrogance.”
“Instead of appreciating the huge and constructive role that KSA has played for long decades towards Lebanon, especially after the July 2006 war, he started launching shameful and fabricated accusations against the kingdom and the Arab states,” said the bloc in a statement issued after its weekly meeting.
"Sayyed Nasrallah's remarks about KSA and the GCC states reflect a state of anxiety and arrogance that Hizbullah and its officials are going through, despite their repetitive claims that they are achieving one victory after another,” Mustaqbal added.
It warned that Nasrallah and Hizbullah are “harming Lebanon and the Lebanese, undermining their interests and sabotaging their present and future through implicating them in open-ended conflicts with their Arab neighbors.”
Mustaqbal also accused Hizbullah of “staging terrorist and criminals acts through turning the party into a mercenary militia that engages in civil wars in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and other places in the Arab region and the world.”
“Hizbullah is invited to conduct a serious and profound reevaluation of its deviation from the confrontation against the Israeli enemy, through returning to the country and the Lebanese state instead of continuing its current course,” the bloc added.
It also warned Hizbullah against becoming “a tool used by foreign forces for sabotage and for stirring sectarian conflicts in the Arab and Muslim worlds.”
Mustaqbal's remarks come amid an unprecedented deterioration in the ties between Saudi Arabia and Lebanon against the backdrop of Hizbullah verbal attacks and a Saudi-Iranian flareup in the region.
Riyadh launched a series of measures against Lebanon and Hizbullah on February 19 when it announced that it was halting around $4 billion in military aid to the Lebanese army and security forces. It has also pushed the GCC to label Hizbullah as a “terrorist” organization and accuse it of "terrorist acts and incitement in Syria, Yemen and in Iraq."
Nasrallah hit back on Sunday, noting that “Saudi Arabia is angry because its bets in Syria and Yemen have failed.”
“The Lebanese know very well that the Saudi scheme in Syria was to topple the regime without caring who might rise to power, be it Daesh (Islamic State group), al-Nusra (Front) or groups of similar ideology. Those confronting Saudi Arabia in Syria are the real defenders of Lebanese interests,” he added, referring to his party's fighters.
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