Hypocrites declare Hezbollah terrorist group

The recent allegation by the Saudi-led Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) that Lebanon’s legendary anti-terrorist movement, Hezbollah is a terrorist network has brought worldwide condemnation for Riyadh and its lackeys, while it has brought praises from the US and the illegal Zionist entity for the reactionary Arab regimes. Stay with us for an analysis.

The reactionary Arab regimes of the Persian Gulf have decided to put the cart before the horse, declaring Lebanon's Hezbollah a terrorist group - with blatant sectarian incitement and torrents of weaponized religious Fatwas. The six-nation Persian Gulf Cooperation Council made up of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain and Kuwait, added Hezbollah to its so-called list of “terrorist” organizations without providing any evidence for their allegations. For the US allies whose main exports include such terrorist outfits as the al-Qaeda and Daesh, labelling the Lebanese political party as a terrorist organization takes their hypocrisy to a whole new level.

It is worth noting that first and foremost the House of Saud and its partners in crime have lost the twin wars they are waging on Syria and Yemen. Their plan to fund the so-called “moderate” head choppers in Syria is not working out quite as anticipated - in the face of the counter-terror alliance of Iran, Syria, Russia and Hezbollah. By declaring Hezbollah a terrorist group, they cannot turn the tables.

The second important point to note is that the regime changers, with a helping hand from the United States and Turkey, created the internationally-recognized terrorist groups of Daesh and al-Qaeda. The terror proxies have been committing war crimes against the people of Yemen, Iraq and Syria. The Arab reactionary regimes are therefore implicated since they are aiding and abetting these extremist outfits. Out of desperation, the Arab reactionary regimes took a series of measures against Hezbollah since Riyadh halted a $4-billion aid pledge to Lebanon’s security forces. The aid suspension came after Beirut did not follow Riyadh’s lead and refused to endorse joint anti-Iran statements at separate meetings in Cairo and Jeddah.

 A day before the move, Hezbollah Secretary General Seyed Hassan Nasrallah lashed out at Riyadh for its smear campaign against the resistance. In his words, the House of Saud spreads lies about Hezbollah and wrongly accuses the resistance of sowing sectarian strife between the Shi’a and the Sunni Muslims. He also denounced the Arab world’s silence in the face of Riyadh’s aggression on Yemen. Obviously, this didn’t go well at the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council.

Obviously, it is not Hezbollah but Riyadh which seeks to fuel sectarian conflict in Lebanon just like the one it has waged against Yemen and Syria. This comes as the Arab reactionary regimes themselves are responsible for fuelling sectarianism throughout the region. Sectarianism is the bread and butter of the Salafis, the Wahhabis, and other Takfiri terrorist outfits. Calls for retaliation and so-called jihad against Shi’a Muslims and Hezbollah by quixotic Saudi clerics should be seen within this context.

 The Saudis are transforming political conflicts into religious struggles and making the bloodshed in the region harder to contain. The pro-Saudi political dynamics has failed, and they are desperate to avoid further defeat and humiliation. They are deliberately targeting Hezbollah to save face.

Suffice it to say, it is the United States, the international Zionism, and the Saudi-led Wahhabi-Takfiri associates that are tearing the Muslim world apart. Riyadh and its Wahhabi-Industrial Complex spread racial and sectarian hatred, all while promoting the US Congress bill which seeks the division of Iraq and Syria along ethnic-sectarian lines.

Despite all of this, the awkward move by Washington’s minions to ban Hezbollah as a terrorist organization will have minimal effects on the resistance movement’s political and military clout. The wealthy funders of the Persian Gulf who helped the rise of Daesh and al-Qaeda to prominence are to blame for the rise of terrorism and extremism in the Middle East, as well as the worsening Syrian refugee crisis in Europe. They are not fit to tell us what constitutes as terrorism and what does not.

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