Future bloc MP Jamal Jarrah pointed out on Monday that Saudi Arabia has always supported Lebanon in all its crises, stressing that “the strife taking place in the region should not affect the country’s situation.”
MP Jarrah slammed the fact that Iran had condemned Saudi Arabia's execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, while it executes more than 1000 people every year.
During an interview with LBCI’s Nharkom Said, the lawmaker accused Iran of exporting terrorism abroad and terrorizing its people, adding that it does not have the right to criticize Saudi Arabia.
“Al-Nimr was related to the Persian project that was trying to sabotage Saudi Arabia and therefore he should not be compared to the Syrian revolution,” he stated.
The execution on Saturday of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a vocal critic of the Saudi government, drew Shi'ite anger across the region, with protesters in regional rival Iran storming the Saudi Embassy and leaders condemning the move.
Al-Nimr was executed alongside 46 other people, including 43 Sunni jihadists, some of them al Qaeda leaders and ideologues.