Saudi failed in anti-Hezbollah campaign: Official

A high-ranking Hezbollah official says Saudi Arabia has failed to obtain any tangible results in the campaign against the Lebanese resistance movement.

“It's enough for us that Israel praised Saudi Arabia and the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council for designating Hezbollah a terror organization," Sheikh Nabil Qaouk, the deputy chief of Hezbollah’s executive council, said in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on Saturday.

He added that media and political campaigns against Hezbollah to distort its reputation have failed.

"They can do and say whatever they want, but the dignity of the resistance is a mountain that will never be shaken by a Saudi, US or Israeli decision,” the top Hezbollah official pointed out.

On Wednesday, the six-nation [P]GCC issued a statement 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 [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council member states as “reckless and hostile.”

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