Hezbollah Resisting against Enemies of Islam
Addressing Friday prayers worshippers in Tehran on March 18, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani said Hezbollah is a movement that is resisting against the enemies of the Muslim world.
He further slammed Saudi Arabia, which was behind enlisting Hezbollah as a terrorist group by certain Arab states, saying that the Riyadh regime is one that has killed thousands of innocent people in Yemen and even does not spare its own people.
The Saudi aggression on Yemen has left some 3500 people dead, 6500 injured and 430 missing the senior cleric noted.
The Arab League’s foreign ministers branded Hezbollah a "terrorist” group in a statement at the end of a meeting in the Egyptian capital city of Cairo earlier this month.
Lebanon and Iraq refused to go along with the move and Algeria expressed "reservations” about it.
In a similar move, the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) issued a statement on March 2, labeling Hezbollah a "terrorist” organization. The Arab bloc comprises Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Hezbollah later denounced the designation and described the PGCC member states as "reckless and hostile.”
The measure came days after Riyadh retracted a USD four-billion aid pledge to Lebanon’s security forces. The decision was made in the wake of recent victories by the Syrian army, backed by Hezbollah fighters, against the Takfiri militants fighting to overthrow the Damascus government.
