Hizbullah Dismisses as 'Sonic Bubble' Saudi Call for Labeling It Terrorist

Hizbullah on Thursday dismissed Saudi Arabia's call for the U.N. Security Council to label the Lebanese party as a “terrorist” group, shrugging it off as a “sonic bubble.”

“The Saudi envoy's remarks at the U.N. Security Council served Israel's interests,” Hizbullah sources told al-Mayadeen television.

Saudi envoy Abdullah al-Muallemi had on Wednesday called on the Security Council to put Hizbullah on its list of “terrorist organizations.”

But the Hizbullah sources played down Muallemi's call as “nothing but a sonic bubble.”

“Hizbullah is a resistance movement and the Saudi envoy to the U.N. is trying to tarnish its image,” said the sources, noting that “the Saudi rhetoric has no practical value in light of the current balance of power inside the Security Council.”

“This stance reflects the real disappointment of the Saudi leadership over the failure of its scheme in Syria,” the sources added.

The development comes despite the fact that Hizbullah was not included in a recent Saudi terror list.

The list issued by Riyadh on March 7 had mentioned the Islamic State group, Yemen's Huthi rebels, Syria's al-Nusra Front and pro-Iran Saudi Hezbollah, which is not affiliated with the Lebanese group.

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