Nasrallah Blasts Al-Hariri for Anti-Hezbollah Remarks

Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah Movement Seyed Hassan Nasrallah lashed out at the Head of the Lebanese Al-Mustaqbal party Saad al-Hariri for his recent remarks against Hezbollah, and called his speech an insult to his late father and former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Saad al-Hariri had called for disarmament of Hezbollah in his speech delivered on Thursday on the occasion of the anniversary of the death his father who was assassinated in a car blast that rocked Beirut in February 2005.

“We reject neutralizing Hezbollah’s weapons and the abolition of the International Tribunal in return of putting the country under the control of a specific person, this is bribery. We do not want to maintain the arms rather we want to maintain the resistance, and if the weapons of the resistance were not to confront Israel and defend Lebanon it would not be worth the sacrifice,” Nasrallah said on Saturday.

He noted that Hariri’s speech was an insult to his father’s history, and addressing Hariri said, “In the past, we met your martyred father and discussed the resistance and its weapons, and we have already told him that our priority is the resistance and everything other than it is debatable. He told us: I am with you and I am with the keeping of the resistance and its weapons until peace is established.”

“Did your father take a bribe from us?,” Nasrallah asked Hariri.

Last year, the Lebanese media unveiled that the country’s former Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, has sought to sow discord between the Shiites and Sunnis in Sidon region.

The Lebanese al-Diyar newspaper wrote that it seems Hariri has started a dangerous game in Lebanon and in Sidon city and trying to show himself as an opponent of Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir’s sit-in and pretend that his supporters want an end to al-Assir’s sit-in.

Based on the report, the reality is that Hariri has established secret ties with al-Assir and has announced his agreement with al-Assir to continue his sit-in until the parliamentary elections in the country.

The newspaper wrote that the plot hatched by Hariri will induce bloody conflicts among the residents of Sidon region, the supporters of Hezbollah and the advocates of al-Assir who have secret relations with Hariri, if Sunni parties accompany al-Assir in the conflicts.

Hariri believes that if the events he desires happen in Lebanon, the ground will be paved for Najib Mikati government’s collapse which he thinks is a supporter of Hezbollah, and then he can form a technocrat government in the country.