Gulf States Led by Saudi Arabia Call Hezbollah a Terrorist Group

Mar 10, 2016, 04:47

Hezbollah has played a crucial role in bolstering the Assad regime in Syria and assisting it in fighting opposition groups, many of which are backed by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.

Hezbollah, for its part, denounces Saudi military intervention in Yemen, where Riyadh is leading a military campaign against the Houthis, which in 2014 overran much of the country and which Saudi Arabia accuses of serving Iranian interests. "Hezbollah is a party that contradicts Israel's policies".

The Gulf Cooperation Council said it was taking the step because of hostile acts by the militant group within its member states. He said Iran was "proud" of Hezbollah.

The decision came a day after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned that Saudi Arabia had pushed Lebanon into a new phase of a political conflict by ending its military aid programme and dealing a blow to the country's tourism industry.

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Last September Kuwait charged 26 people with possessing weapons and having contacts with Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah group in order to plot attacks against the Gulf state.

The statement says that Hezbollah's status conversion is connected with hostile acts of the Lebanese organization against member-states of the block.

Saudi Arabia said on Friday it had blacklisted four companies and three Lebanese men for having links to Hezbollah, a close ally of Riyadh's arch regional adversary Iran.

He repeated his accusations that Saudi Arabia was directly responsible for some auto bombings in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, and he denounced Saudi "massacres" in Yemen. Other Gulf countries, such as Bahrain, have accused the group of instigating violence.

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Sunni-led Saudi Arabia, the biggest member of the GCC, wields considerable influence in Lebanon through its backing for Sunni politician Saad al-Hariri, a former prime minister who said on Tuesday that "riots, road blocking and tyre burning" were attempts to provoke "chaos and discord" .

Riyadh cut diplomatic ties with Tehran after demonstrators set fire to its embassy and a consulate following the Saudi execution of a prominent Shia cleric.

It was Hezbollah that gained the first major victory of Arabs and Muslims in the history of anti-Zionist conflict and turned to the distinguished symbol of resistance to the occupation and racism of Zionism, he underlined.

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