Hezbollah figures Sunday accused Arab regimes of fueling tensions in Lebanon and Syria, adding that the March 14 coalition has brought the country into Syria’s crisis.
In a graduation ceremony in the southern village of Blida, Loyalty to the Resistance MP Mohammad Raad said: “Influential Arab regimes finance what strife is being sowed in Lebanon, Yemen and Syria for the U.S. and Europe.”
He added that the West “seeks to affiliate Lebanon with the organization of Arab regimes that want to pave the way for reconciliation with the Israeli enemy based on conditions set by the Jewish State.”
Raad also said his rivals have changed their agenda to satisfy the U.S. and Europe and to build animosity with Iran, Hezbollah’s main ally in the region.
He cited an example of Iran’s offer to help Lebanon with its electricity crisis, saying the “state did not even dare to consider the offer since that would anger the U.S.”
Meanwhile, Sheikh Nabik Qaouk, the deputy head of Hezbollah's Executive Council, accused the March 14 party of involvement in the course of the 17-month-old conflict in Syria which he said had automatically brought the whole country into the conflict.
“The presence of Syrian gunmen in Lebanon implicates our country in the crisis and the March 14 forces have already been involved and become partners in the aggression against that country,” he told supporters during a ceremony celebrating the six anniversary of “Hezbollah’s victory over Israel in 2006,” in south Lebanon.
Qaouk also said that the party provides both political and security cover for the alleged Syrian gunmen in Lebanon to launch attacks and carry out operations against Syria.
He also targeted the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, saying it harms civil peace in the country.
“The military and security wing of the U.S. Embassy threatens civil peace and the security of the resistance, as well as threatening Syria from Lebanon via its Lebanese tools,” Qaouk said.