Bassil Rejects Arab League Statement Accusing Hizbullah of Meddling in Bahrain
Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil on Sunday expressed Lebanon's rejection of an Arab League statement condemning Hizbullah over alleged interference in Bahrain.
“This Lebanese stance is based on Lebanon's interest in preserving the region's stability and its domestic unity and stability,” Bassil told a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo.
“We came here to express solidarity with Saudi Arabia against the attacks on its diplomatic missions in Iran and we rejected a statement linking Hizbullah to acts of terror,” the minister told reporters after the meeting.
Protesters in Tehran stormed the Saudi embassy and a Saudi consulate elsewhere in the country after Saudi Arabia executed prominent Shiite cleric and opposition leader Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr earlier this month.
The session was requested by Saudi Arabia to discuss the attacks. The ensuing crisis has seen Saudi Arabia and several Arab states cut or downgrade diplomatic ties with Iran.
The meeting's closing statement condemned Iran over the attacks on the Saudi diplomatic missions and alleged interference in the affairs of several Arab countries.
Against the backdrop of the Iranian-Saudi row, Riyadh's ally Bahrain announced Wednesday that it had dismantled a “terror” cell linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard and Lebanon's Hizbullah.
The alleged cell was planning to carry out a "series of dangerous bombings" in the tiny Sunni-ruled kingdom, a Bahraini interior ministry statement said.
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