Justifications to attack Yemen baseless: Nasrallah

The secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, has slammed Saudi Arabia’s attack on Yemen.

During a televised speech delivered late on Friday, Nasrallah denounced Saudi-led coalition attacks on Yemen, which began on Thursday, saying that the real reason for the airstrikes is that Saudi Arabia has lost its domination on the impoverished country.

“Saudi war is aimed at regaining the domination of Yemen” he noted.

Saudis try to justify their attacks by saying that the situation in Yemen threatens the security in the region, Nasrallah stated, adding that such justifications are false and baseless.

The Hezbollah chief stressed that the countries in the coalition did not take any measures against revolutionaries in the countries like Tunisia and Egypt during the Islamic Awakening movement in the Middle East and Africa, but used the situation in Yemen as an excuse to wage a bloody war on the country.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Nasrallah condemned the coalition countries for their inaction towards the Israeli aggressions in Palestine.

“Israel has never been an enemy in the eyes of certain Arab countries” the Hezbollah chief said, stressing, “Arab countries have left Palestinian people to suffer.”
Regarding the situation is Syria and Iraq, Nasrallah noted that Riyadh and its allies created and supported the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and have done nothing to help Iraq counter the terrorists.

“Who is preventing a political solution in Syria? Who is increasing the flames in Syria? The kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its allies,” Nasrallah stated.

He also emphasized that efforts by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar to turn Syria into a submissive country have proved in vain.