Hizbullah Says Mustaqbal 'Attached' to Saudi 'Regime of Ignorance'
The war of words flared up anew on Wednesday between al-Mustaqbal movement and Hizbullah, with the latter slamming its rival as a subservient to “the Saudi regime.”
“Al-Mustaqbal movement's attachment to the Saudi leadership and its efforts to satisfy it and defend it will not make us remain silent over an aggression of this magnitude against a brotherly Arab Muslim people” in Yemen, Hizbullah's media department said in a statement, a day after the two parties held their tenth dialogue session.
The party said Mustaqbal officials and media outlets “went crazy” after Hizbullah took “a clear and honest stance in support of the aggrieved and targeted Yemeni people who are facing a Saudi aggression.”
“The rhetoric of al-Mustaqbal movement gives the impression that this movement supports the extermination operations and mass murders that are being committed by the aggression's warplanes against innocent civilians,” Hizbullah added.
“The regime of the Saud family is purchasing consciences, importing armies and soldiers, and sowing discord and divisions in order to fragment countries and murder innocents,” it said.
In an apparent reference to anti-Tehran remarks by Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq, Hizbullah slammed Saudi Arabia as a “regime of ignorance and murder which is exporting terrorism, extremists and subversive ideologies.”
Saudi Arabia “cannot be put in an unjust comparison with the Islamic Republic of Iran, which the world has acknowledged as an advanced and developed state,” the party added.
Shortly after the dialogue session ended on Tuesday, Mashnouq launched a tirade against Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“Those whose noses will be rubbed against the ground are the ones who have excelled in the culture of elimination and aggression,” said Mashnouq.
On Thursday, Khamenei accused Riyadh of “genocide” in Yemen, saying “the Saudis' noses will surely be rubbed against the ground.”
Dialogue between Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal kicked off on December 21 and has recently faced the threat of collapse due to the heated exchange of tirades over the Saudi-led operation.
A day after Saudi Arabia launched operation Firmness Storm on March 28, Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah appeared in a televised address and slammed the campaign as a “Saudi-American aggression.” He also promised Riyadh that it will suffer a “major defeat.”
Mustaqbal leader ex-PM Saad Hariri hit back at Nasarllah on the same night, denouncing his speech as a “storm of hatred.”
Y.R.
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