Saudi Vows to Deport Anyone who 'Shows Support for Hizbullah'
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Saudi Arabia vowed Sunday to deport any resident who “shows support” for Hizbullah or collaborates with it in any manner, warning that those involved in such activities would be prosecuted under the kingdom's anti-terror laws.
“The Ministry of Interior stresses that any citizen or resident who shows affiliation or support for the so-called Hizbullah group … will face harsh penalties according to the anti-terror laws and regulations,” the ministry said in a statement.
The measures also apply to those who “promote” Hizbullah's ideology and those who donate to the group or communicate with it, the ministry added, warning against offering refuge to any Hizbullah “member.”
“Any resident involved in such activities will be deported,” the Ministry of Interior cautioned.
The kingdom and the Gulf Cooperation Council have blacklisted Hizbullah as a “terrorist” organization.
On Wednesday, the GCC discussed measures “that must be taken to confront Hizbullah,” Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir announced after a council meeting in Riyadh.
Asked about further Gulf sanctions against Hizbullah, Jubeir said the foreign ministers of the GCC had decided to look into measures that "would prevent Hizbullah from benefiting from GCC states."
The measures come amid an unprecedented strain in the relations between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia that Riyadh has attributed to “hostile” Lebanese diplomatic positions and alleged Hizbullah "terrorist acts against Arab and Muslim nations."
Saudi Arabia started 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.
The kingdom later slapped sanctions on individuals and firms accused of ties to Hizbullah and advised its citizens against travel to Lebanon while urging those already in the country to leave it.
It also pushed the GCC to label Hizbullah as a “terrorist” organization over purported "terrorist acts and incitement in Syria, Yemen and in Iraq."
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah hit back last Sunday, noting that “Saudi Arabia is angry because its bets in Syria and Yemen have failed.”
Y.R.
13 March 2016, 22:54
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WOW! All this from a country that breeds and nurtures terrorism. NUSRA filth are their cousins and ISIL scum their brothers.
14 March 2016, 02:43
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Wow!all this from a fake poster caught with multiple accounts and pretends to be someone he is not.
14 March 2016, 02:39
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These are not actions of the few. The vast majority of these heretics support and are part of hezbollah.
14 March 2016, 03:54
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This is the KSA awakening from its long time slump. It is every nation's right to deport those who means or wish it harm. I wish Lebanon did this back in the 60s and 70s and it could have avoided its collapse. I wish Lebanon could do that now to HA/ISIS/NUSRA/PFLP/SNP and all groups that wants to do harm to it either directly or via foreign affiliation. Anyone who drinks from a well and throw stones in it does not deserve any privileges.
14 March 2016, 06:24
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Saudi Arabian authorities do not seem to understand that the mess they have created , and still creating, in the Middle East will backfire against them. I foresee worse internal troubles in SA than the ones they have created in Syria and Yemen.
28 March 2016, 18:00
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I was beheaded once and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.
