Gulf Cooperation Council Warns of Steps against Hizbullah
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Gulf states could take measures against Hizbullah in the near future, the head of the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council said on Sunday.
The GCC "decided to look into taking measures against Hizbullah's interests in the member states," GCC chief Abdul Latif al-Zayani told reporters at the end of a ministerial meeting in the Saudi city of Jeddah.
Zayani gave no other details on the nature of the measures or the interests to which he was referring.
Bahraini Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ghanim al-Buainain said that "nobody could cover up Hizbullah's actions in regional countries."
"It is a terrorist organization and this is how Gulf states see it," he added.
However, placing Hizbullah on the GCC's "terror" list was "a technical and legal matter that needs to be further studied," the Bahraini minister said.
At the opening of the meeting, Buainain had called for "a serious stance and united action to end the attacks on the interests of the Syrian people and giving them the right to choose their political regime."
"We see this today as a clear and flagrant Iranian interference, alongside its ally Hizbullah, in the Syrian crisis using all sorts of weapons and turning Syria into a battle zone that has left thousands of Syrians dead," he said.
Bahrain, which currently holds the GCC's rotating presidency, has branded the movement a "terrorist organization."
Hizbullah's men are fighting alongside Syrian government troops in a fierce battle to retake the strategic Syrian town of Qusayr from mostly Sunni rebels.
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah had previously justified the group's involvement in Syria by saying they were defending Lebanese-inhabited border villages inside Syria against rebel attacks and Shiite holy sites in Damascus province.
But the offensive on Qusayr forced the movement to change its argument.
"Syria is the rear guard of the resistance (Hizbullah's fight with Israel), its backbone, and the resistance cannot stay with its arms folded when its rear guard is exposed," Nasrallah said last month in a speech for the 13th anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
"We are idiots if we do not act," he added.
Nasrallah stressed that Hizbullah will win the battle in Syria against the “United States, Israel and the Takfiris just like it emerged victorious in previous wars.”
The Gulf Cooperation Council is made up of six Sunni-ruled states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
02 June 2013, 21:55
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Kick them out of the gulf, let them get jobs in Iran. It'll leave more jobs for non-terroristas.
02 June 2013, 23:35
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it is a little late but it is never too late to put hezballa on the list but please please can you include those backing hizballah as well ie: 8th of march folks, syria, iran and russia???!!!
03 June 2013, 00:25
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Taking measures against the Hizb is fine and laudable. Targetting the Shia community is the Gulf is not.
03 June 2013, 16:28
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unless the shia community start rebelling against the tutelage of nasrallah berri iran and assad and start voicing a sizable opposing point of view like toufayli for example they are going to suffer the consequences of their leaders bad decisions.
02 June 2013, 22:08
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the GCC are starting to retaliate on iran and hizbushaitan... more to come....
02 June 2013, 22:09
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At the opening of the meeting, Buainain had called for "a serious stance and united action to end the attacks on the interests of the Syrian people and giving them the right to choose their political regime."
As long as it's not Bashar Al Assad, right ? If so: hypocrites.
Last time I checked, the current governmental configuration holds the popular vote still, so what is the gulf's problem ? Too much of an investment to be lost ?
02 June 2013, 22:59
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more nails in hizb iran's coffin
and since iran is facing its own biased elections (candidates cannot be ones that want to reconcile with the west), there will be mores scrutiny on this faux resistance
02 June 2013, 23:51
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Its actually kind of funny that the birth region of Al Qaeda and modern-day suicide-bombers/terrorism wants to put other people on the terrorist list. lol.
03 June 2013, 00:03
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Have GCC countries added Jebhit el Nosra to the list of terrorists or is terrorism blessed as long as it's carried out by Sunnites?
03 June 2013, 00:08
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Those backward Bedouins talk like hashashine with stark interference in Syria's internal affairs. Why don't they talk about the Palestinians and the loss of Palestine?? They are totally blind and suffer from total amnesia. It brings disgust and ridicule as their bank accounts do the talking not their heads which sits in between their legs, the world knows that.
03 June 2013, 00:28
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Demeurê.
Va lire de quand date tes kamikazes https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Véhicule_piégé
03 June 2013, 00:39
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The Gulf Cooperation with Israel Council can take these steps and shove them up their wazoos with all our love.
03 June 2013, 03:08
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The sectarian madness should end before it indiscriminately burns the whole Middle East.
03 June 2013, 09:46
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very right and the Qatari minister looked at him shocked,,, I remembered this day,,,,
LOL
03 June 2013, 11:12
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The pot calling the kettle black! Where was al-qeida concieved and who funded it? GCC a pack of self righteous extremists, the only and true founders of oppression.. I can't wait for the GCC spring (it is coming) to watch all these puppets heads roll.
03 June 2013, 13:45
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Obviously you have never been in GCC countries. Other than countries where Iran is trying to create civil disobedience using Shias, most countries are quite happy with their rulers who are providing to them and offering them the best living conditions. Enjoy da7ieh living.
03 June 2013, 11:47
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you can print this pic. and hang it high on your WC wall for constipation purposes.... its a miracle!
03 June 2013, 12:54
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What about Gulf billions of USD supporting al qaeda in Syria? Hypocrisy at its best!! GCC is giving lessons in democracy, and defining "terrorism"? This is the day!! Money can buy everything, but not the truth.
03 June 2013, 18:30
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unitedlebanon: what is the difference between assad and the gulf dictators? if you support assad then you should support the gulf dictators because they are the same thing...
plus how oppressed chias are in bahrein compared to the oppression of syrians? if you support the demand of freedom from the bahreinis chias then you should also support the same demands in syria...
or are you double standard?
03 June 2013, 21:50
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if there were truly a zionist american plot against bashar he would already have fallen... never thought of that? LOL!
