Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah told hundreds of supporters Friday at a Beirut rally in support of Yemen’s Shiite rebels that Saudi-led airstrikes targeting them have not led to victory.
Since March 26, the Saudi-led coalition has been pounding the rebels known as Houthis and allied fighters loyal to Yemen’s ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Nasrallah says that the kingdom will soon realize that “the only choice left” is a ground operation in Yemen — a “ground invasion will be costly and will end with a defeat.”
Both the Houthis and Hezbollah are backed by Iran.
[www.mb.com by AP]
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He also blamed Saudi Arabia for the spread of extremist ideology in the Arab world and called on Hezbollah’s rival, the Future Movement, to cooperate to prevent the Yemen conflict from spilling over into Lebanon.
However, Nasrallah’s anti-Saudi diatribe quickly drew a rebuke from former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who accused the Hezbollah chief of following in the footsteps of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in making “fabrications, distorting [facts], misleading [the public], [putting on] shows of strength and sectarian incitement.”
“What we heard was a coordinated event of slander and an act of digging up the graves of hatred,” Hariri said on his Twitter account Friday night, shortly after Nasrallah ended his speech. “It has exposed the hatred in [Nasrallah’s] heart against Saudi Arabia, its founder and its leadership.” .....dailystar.com.lb
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