Hariri Accuses Nasrallah of 'Reversing Facts, Ingratitude' over Anti-Saudi Remarks
Al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri hit back Wednesday at Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah over recent anti-Saudi remarks, accusing him of “reversing the facts” and “ingratitude.”
“The remarks attributed to Hizbullah's secretary-general on Saudi Arabia's role in the July War are the peak of reversing the facts and ingratitude,” Hariri tweeted.
Accusing Nasrallah of waging a campaign of “sectarian and political incitement,” the former premier said Hizbullah chief's “claim that Saudi Arabia is to blame for the killing in our region is both laughable and lamentable as well as ridiculous.”
In remarks attributed to him in several local dailies on Wednesday, Nasrallah was quoted as telling a group of religious orators that “Saudi Arabia is to blame for the killing in our region and it was responsible for killing us during the July War” with Israel in 2006.
He also accused Riyadh of “murdering the Yemeni people” and financing wars in Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Hariri snapped back on Wednesday, saying Nasrallah was trying to “justify his involvement in the bloody battlefields in Syria by launching accusations against others.”
The ex-PM also asked Nasrallah about “the blood of hundreds of Lebanese youths that he sent to the inferno of war in Syria” and “the blood of thousands of Syrians that he killed together with (Syrian President) Bashar Assad and Daesh (Islamic State group).”
“Being Iran's political and religious agent in Lebanon does not give you an authorization to harm the interests of the Lebanese,” Hariri added.
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