Hezbollah’s Nasrallah calls on Saudi Arabia to stop its airstrikes against Yemen

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Hezbollah’s Nasrallah calls on Saudi Arabia to stop its airstrikes against Yemen

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivered a televised speech on Friday.

In his speech, He noted that his party respects the others' right to express their opinion, adding that no one has the right to prevent them from expressing their opinion.
 
Turning to the ongoing talks with the Future Movement, he said that his party will carry on with the dialogue “as long as it serves the national interests.”
 
On the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, he noted that Hezbollah does not care about the testimonies that were given before the tribunal, adding that the party will bear all the provocations.
 
"We call on the supporters of the resistance not to heed the voices that are trying to foment sedition," he added.
 
On another note, Nasrallah stressed that Iran did not and will not interfere in the Lebanese presidential elections; noting that Saudi Arabia is the one hindering the polls.
 
Lebanon has been plunged into a presidential vacuum since the mandate of President Michel Sleiman ended last May without the election of a successor.
 
As for the latest events in Yemen, Nasrallah voiced hopes that the new political divisions in the Gulf region would not result in tension in Lebanon.
 
He also said that for decades, the Palestinian people and the countries neighboring Israel did not feel any "Firmness Storm", not even a "firmness breeze," in reference to the codename of the Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen.
 
"If the goal is to rescue the Yemeni people, why did you abandon the Palestinian people for decades? Why did you betray them?," he asked.
 
“If the waged war was against Israel we would have been partners in it, but not if it is against an Arab people,” he added.
 
Hezbollah chief also noted that the pretext that Yemen represents a threat to the Gulf countries is "pointless."
 
Nasrallah said that one of the "most big lies" that the Saudi kingdom has been propagating is that Iran is occupying Yemen.
 
"Saudi Arabia does not recognize the rights of the people, and this is the main problem in the Saudi mentality," he added.
 
He also noted that Saudi Arabia's failure is pushing the people of the region to resort to Tehran.
 
"When Israel had occupied Lebanon, Iran supported Hezbollah and gave us the experience of resistance," he stressed.
 
Nasrallah asked what Saudi Arabia did for Iraq, adding that the Saudi kingdom had funded the war waged by Saddam Hussein against Iran.​
 
"You had also supported George Bush in his war on Iraq," he added.
 
Nassrallah accused Saudi Arabia of supporting al-Qaeda-linked groups and Takfiri militants when the Iraqi people resisted the US occupation, adding that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is the kingdom’s "latest crime."
 
He called on Saudi Arabia to stop its airstrikes against Yemen, urging for a political solution to put an end for the crisis.
 
Hezbollah had issued a statement on Thursday denouncing the airstrikes in Yemen targeting the Shiite rebels in the capital Sanaa.
 
Saudi Arabia bombed the northern stronghold of Yemen's Shiite rebels and key military installations on Friday, the second day of a campaign that military officials said was aimed at neutralizing air defenses ahead of a possible ground invasion.
 
The intervention that began early Thursday is aimed at halting the advance of the Iran-backed rebels, known as Houthis, who have allied with a powerful former president and seized the capital and several provinces.
 
The airstrikes have struck at least six provinces, including one rich in oil and gas, and opened a new front in the regional rivalry between Riyadh and Tehran. Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, a close U.S. ally, has fled the country, and the turmoil could bolster a powerful local al-Qaeda affiliate as well as militants inspired by the Islamic State group.

 
 
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