Saudi Arabia seeks to provoke civil war in Lebanon: Nasrallah

The Secretary General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement Sayyed Hassan Nsasrallah has charged Saudi Arabia with seeking to provoke civil war in Lebanon, saying Riyadh pretends to be friends with the Lebanese people and government while pushing its allies to stand against the popular resistance movement in the country.

Faraan; According to Press TV, he made the remarks in a televised speech on Thursday, while addressing a ceremony held to commemorate Hezbollah Martyrs’ Day, which annually falls on November 11.

“It is assumed that Saudi Arabia presents itself as a friend of the Lebanese people, but its problem is with Hezbollah. Is this how a friend deals with his friend?” Nasrallah said.

He added, “The Saudi pressure [on the Lebanese information minister to resign over remarks made on the Yemen war] is part of the battle against the resistance in Lebanon and not with Hezbollah, as a political party, and is therefore [a battle] against the resistance.”

“We know the Saudi role in the [33-day] war of July [2006] and the Saudi incitement to continue that war,” the Hezbollah chief said, adding, “Saudi Arabia wants its allies in Lebanon to fight a civil war with Hezbollah in the service of Israel and America.”

He underlined that Saudi Arabia “has not given Lebanon any help for years because it wants a civil war” in the country.

Nasrallah also rejected calls for the resignation of the Lebanese information minister, saying that Kordahi’s comments were “calm and objective.”

Riyadh fabricated crisis with Lebanon over Yemen comments

The leader of Hezbollah resistance movement also said that Saudi Arabia has fabricated a crisis with Lebanon over comments made by the Lebanese information minister over the Saudi war on Yemen.

Nasrallah said Riyadh’s exaggerated reaction to Kordahi’s comments was an excuse to open a front against the resistance movement.

“Saudi Arabia’s reaction to Kordahi’s statements is very, very, very exaggerated,” he said, adding, “There are American officials and Arab diplomats who described the war on Yemen in harsher terms than Kordahi’s statement.”

Elsewhere in his remarks, Nasrallah pointed to the Saudi aggression on Yemen’s central province of Ma’rib, saying, “We have accepted the Saudi sanctions against us for years because of our position on the war on Yemen.”

The Hezbollah chief added that “Saudi Arabia’s main issue is with Yemen, specifically in Ma’rib, and the results of the war, which has failed completely.”

He noted that the row with Lebanon was Saudi Arabia’s response to gains by Yemeni forces against Saudi-backed forces in Ma’rib, but the pressure would not work and the city’s eventual fall would have “very big” consequences.

Addressing Saudi Arabia, Nasrallah said, “If you want to stop the war, the only way to do that is to accept the ceasefire and lift the siege” on Yemen.

“Arab countries have owned up to Syria’s victory”

In another part of his speech, Nasrallah pointed to recent steps taken by Arab countries to mend fences with Syria saying, “During recent days and weeks there have been reports about contacts between heads of state from Arab countries with [Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad.”

“The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates has also paid a visit to Syria… this means acceptance of Syria’s victory [in its war on terror] by Arab countries and their admission of the failure of a project on which they have spent billions of dollars,” the Hezbollah chief said.

Lebanon not being controlled by Hezbollah

During his televised speech on Thursday, Nasrallah denounced as “completely false” the Saudi claims that Lebanon is being controlled by Hezbollah.

“All the Lebanese realize that Saudi claims about Hezbollah’s hegemony over Lebanon are completely false,” the Hezbollah chief said, noting, “These Saudi allegations are absurd and the most ridiculous of them is the idea of ​​the Iranian occupation of Lebanon.”

Nasrallah added, “We do not deny that we are an influential party and that we are the largest party at the political and structural levels, but we do not dominate. There are forces with much less strength than us, who have a great influence on the state, especially in the judiciary.”

He added, “The argument of Saudi Arabia that we are a dominant party in Lebanon is a complete lie and complete slander.”

Israelis aware of Hezbollah’s strength, sincerity

Nasrallah stressed Israel’s “anxiety” over the growing strength of Hezbollah and said, “The repeated Israeli maneuvers in the north of the occupied Palestine reflect the Israeli concern about Lebanon.”

“The Israeli maneuvers reflect the fear that Lebanon will storm the settlements in the Galilee,” he said, referring to an Israeli-occupied region near the Lebanese border and the Israeli-occupied side of Golan.

“The Israelis are aware of the resistance’s strength, sincerity, lofty status, and the importance of its strategic ideas,” he said, adding, “if the resistance enters northern Palestine and the Galilee, this will have very big repercussions on the occupation entity.”

The Hezbollah chief also said, “The Israelis are obsessed with fear of the growing strength of the axis of resistance, especially after the battle of Saif al-Quds (Operation al-Quds Sword).”

Nasrallah stressed that “Israel is experiencing existential anxiety and is trying to breathe through the path of normalization [of relations with a number of Arab countries].”

He stressed that “all countries with which Israel has normalized relations will not be able to protect it and they know that.”

The Hezbollah leader said, “The increasing Israeli violence against the prisoners and the Palestinians is not a sign of strength, but rather a sign of anxiety and panic.”

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