A youth watches Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah speaking on television inside an electronics shop in the port city of Sidon, southern Lebanon December 21, 2015.
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Several of the expelled were forced to leave the country within a period of one month while the more “dangerous ones” were requested to leave immediately.
Israel and Hezbollah fought an inconclusive war in 2006.
Hezbollah has been fighting in Syria on the side of the regime, and its Iranian backers, since mid-2013.
Also Nasrallah warned off his traditional arch-enemy, Israel: “If the Israeli Army escalates its aggression against Lebanon, Hezbollah will strike all the strategic targets in the occupied Palestinian targets, including the nuclear facilities”.
“We must stay until this goal (the defeat of the jihadists) is reached, whether that is with the extremist groups’ withdrawal from Syria or with a political solution”, he added.
The current stage of negotiations between the Syrian opposition and the government’s delegation kicked off in Geneva on March 14 and is expected to wrap up on March 24. “We want a political solution”.
“This is after he glorified the terrorist group Hezbollah and insulted the kingdom in a video clip that has been shared” online, the report said. Saudi Arabia and Turkey, which insist Assad must leave power, have been supporting Sunni Muslim insurgents fighting to overthrow him.
His criticism of Riyadh comes almost three weeks after the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which groups Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar, declared Hezbollah a terrorist organization.
Branding Hezbollah a pawn of regional rival Iran, Kuwaiti authorities expelled 11 Lebanese and three Iraqis over alleged ties to the group, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported yesterday.
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In response, Kuwait told the official to engage in measures to build confidence with the Gulf States, particularly highlighting Iran’s interference in Bahrain and Yemen and its approach to Saudi Arabia.
