Qaouq Refuses to Allow U.S. to Use STL as Weapon: Resistance Has Garnered Parliamentary Majority

Hizbullah official Nabil Qaouq stated on Sunday that the equation in Lebanon today has changed from what it was in the past seeing as the Resistance now enjoys a parliamentary and popular majority, adding that it refuses the United States’ employment of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon as a weapon against the party.

He said during a ceremony commemorating the assassination of Hizbullah military commander Imad Mughniyeh: “The new government in Lebanon should help remove the country from the American minefield.”

“Hizbullah is the side that is contributing the most in facilitating the formation of the Cabinet because it is working on saving the nation from the strife project and the American and Israeli conspiracy,” he said.

“The party does not oppose the participation of any side in government, but it opposes American conspiracy plans and its attempts to threaten Lebanon’s stability and national unity,” he continued.

Addressing Israel, Qaouq said: “It is now weaker than it was before … We should always be prepared to confront all possibilities that Israel may resort to in order to compensate for its loss in the region.”

“We know it will resort to an indirect confrontation with the Resistance because it won’t be capable of confronting it militarily,” he stressed.

Commenting on the recent developments in Egypt, he noted: “Egypt’s pharaoh has been toppled by the people … This should help restore its leading position in the area and end its defeatist position to the U.S.”