Echoing Trump, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah also accused Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton of helping create the militant Sunni group, a rival to the Shiite Hezbollah.
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Nasrallah’s remarks come after USA ally Saudi Arabia, along with Gulf Cooperation Council countries, labeled Hezbollah a terrorist organization in March, blacklisting companies and individuals with ties to the group. In December, Russian President Vladimir Putin termed the Republican “the absolute leader of the presidential race”. He defended some of Trump’s recent controversial comments including that President Obama founded ISIS and suggesting Russian Federation try to retreive Hillary Clinton’s emails. He has since dismissed the comments as sarcastic, echoing his response to an outcry over earlier comments in which he exhorted Russian Federation to hack Clinton’s e-mails. A White House spokesman declined to comment on the most recent comments.
Pence sat down with Chris Wallace for “Fox News Sunday” at the Governor’s residence here in Indianapolis.
“Obviously I’m being sarcastic … but not that sarcastic to be honest with you”, Trump said Friday at a campaign rally in Erie, Pa., The Hill reported.
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Nasrallah, who has sent thousands of his fighters to Syria to shore up President Bashar Assad’s forces, has long claimed that the US helped create and fuel the rise of Islamic extremists to destabilize the Middle East.
