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Yemen has slammed the German government’s decision to designate Hezbollah a “terrorist organization”, saying Berlin has complied with the dictates of Washington and Tel Aviv to ban the resistance movement.
Yemen’s government and the country’s popular Ansarullah resistance movement condemned the measure as a sign of Berlin’s submission to Washington and Tel Aviv.
“This unjust decision by Germany took place in compliance with US and Israeli dictates targeting the group,” Yemen’s Information Minister and Government spokesperson Dhaifallah al-Shami said, according to the Saba news agency.
Ansarullah’s political bureau published a statement saying that “Germany’s decision has fulfilled US and Israeli wishes in normalizing Zionism and opposing the free nations which seek to resist global tyranny and arrogance”.
Ansarullah has been battling a five-year Saudi Yemen war, heavily supported by Western states such as Germany. The popular group reiterated its support for Hezbollah and urged Arab and Muslim countries to reject Berlin’s decision.
Germany has long been known for its controversial support for terrorists and oppressive forces in the region, most recently facilitating terrorist presence in foreign-backed terrorism in Syria and Iraq.
It is responsible along with other European states for allowing extremists from across Europe to join Daesh in 2014 with the aim of toppling the Syrian government.
The German government has also been accused of helping the US assassinate Iran's top anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani earlier this year.
Berlin has been a longtime backer of Israel, providing billions of dollars in aid enabling the occupation of Palestine in the name of reparations for Jewish persecution by the Nazi Germany.
Also during the 1980-1988 imposed war against Iran, Germany was among the countries providing Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein with blueprints and material needed to build chemical weapons used indiscriminately against Iranian civilians and troops.
Germany has been a longtime safe haven and supporter of the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) which has killed thousands of innocent Iranians.
On Thursday, Israel was effusive in its praise of Germany, with the regime's foreign minister Israel Katz hailing the blacklisting as a "very important decision".
"I call on other European countries as well as the European Union to do the same," Katz said in a statement.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu also welcomed the decision. "All peace-loving countries should reject terrorist organizations and provide them with no direct or indirect assistance," he said.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
