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Leader of the Lebanese Resistance movement Hezbollah Sayed Hassan Nasrallah has accused Saudi Arabia of financing the Daesh terror group and of committing atrocities in war-torn Yemen, describing the actions of Riyadh as a “state terror”.
The Saudi policy in Yemen, as well as the country’s alleged support for Daesh terror group, which is outlawed in Russia, can be regarded as state terrorism, Secretary General of the Islamic Resistance movement Hezbollah Sayed Hassan Nasrallah said on Thursday.
“The war [unleashed] by Saudi Arabia in Yemen is a real state terror … IS [Daesh] stems from Saudi Arabia and is financed by Saudis,” Nasrallah said in his speech on the occasion of the 17th anniversary of liberation of south Lebanon from Israel.
From his point of view, the Hezbollah chief believes Saudi Arabia failed to fulfill its goals in the region by enabling the creation of radical militant armies.
“Today the world regards Saudi Arabia as the center of the Takfiri [ideology] and the main sponsor of the radical groups,” the Hezbollah leader said.
He said that Saudi Arabia needed the United States' support in order to retain its positions in the region and counter Iran.
“Saudi Arabia provided [US President Donald] Trump with everything to unleash the war against Iran and the resistance movement [pro-Iranian formations],” Sayed Nasrallah added.
Saudi Arabia has been leading a destructive military campaign against Yemen since March 2015 to reinstate former president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and crush the Houthi movement.
The campaign has seriously damaged the country’s infrastructure. Local Yemeni sources have put the death toll from the Saudi war at over 12,000, including many women and children.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
