Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave a televised speech on Friday in which he accused Saudi Arabia of prodding Israel to attack Lebanon. He claimed the Saudis have essentially hired the Israelis as mercenaries to help them take out Iran’s Lebanese proxy army.
“Saudi Arabia is inciting Israel to launch a war against Lebanon,” Nasrallah claimed in his speech. “I speak here about facts, not analysis. Saudi Arabia is ready to pay tens of billions of dollars to Israel for that.”
Nasrallah claimed Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has been abducted by the Saudis, who forced him to tender his resignation.
“Lebanon has witnessed foreign interventions before but it never reached the level of forcing the prime minister to resign. We may have disputes with the Future Movement, but we condemn Saudi Arabia’s humiliation of prime minister Hariri,” he reportedly said, referring to Hariri’s political party, according to the translation by Middle East Eye.
The Future Movement (FM), which is currently the majority party in the Lebanese parliament, has called for Hariri’s return to Lebanon and indicated it still considers him the sitting prime minister, rejecting his resignation as invalid.
Hariri himself gave a statement from an undisclosed location after resigning on November 4th in which he accused Iran of plotting to use Lebanon as a pawn in its scheme for regional domination and would have him killed as part of that plan. READ MORE
