Leader of Lebanon’s Shiite militia of Hezbollah on Saturday agreed with a recent statement by the USA presidential candidate Donald Trump that the Obama administration has created ISIS.
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah addresses thousands of supporters who took to the streets of southern Beirut to denounce a film mocking Islam on September 17, 2012.
Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, gave a speech today (Saturday) to commemorate ten years since the Second Lebanon War and sent threats to the Israeli government.
However, Trump has later said that that claim was “intended as sarcasm”.
Trump made his accusations about Obama during a campaign rally on August 10. He has since played down the comments as having been meant as sarcasm, echoing his response to the outcry over earlier remarks in which he exhorted Russian Federation to hack Clinton’s e-mails.
The Lebanon-based militant organization, which is Shiite and allied with the government of Iran, is a staunch opponent of ISIS, which is SunniHezbollah paramilitary units have deployed to Syria, fighting in support of strongman Bashar al-Assad’s government there, with their principal opposition being ISIS militants.
“He was being very serious, and he was making a point that needs to be made, that there is no question that the failed policies of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in the wider Middle East, created a vacuum within Iraq in which ISIS was able to arise”, said Pence, governor of Indiana.
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“According to the Times, one of those won over by the rumors of conspiracy was Lebanese foreign minister Gebran Bassil, who posted on Twitter that he had demanded an explanation from the USA embassy”. “What he says is based on facts and documents”.
