Israel pressures Bulgaria to take anti-Hezbollah stance : Redwan Rizk

Tue Feb 12, 2013 6:53PM GMT
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Interview with Redwan Rizk
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So those accusations have no base at all because are based on some movement from the side of the Bulgarian government and as we know, the Bulgarian government has a very strong relations with the Israeli Mossad based on some kind of cooperation between both sides.”

A Beirut-based political commentator tells Press TV that the allegations of Bulgarian government against Hezbollah over its involvement in a bomb attack in Bulgaria in 2012 are baseless and unfounded.

He also added that the Zionist regime was pressuring the the Bulgarian government to bring false accusations against the Lebanese resistance movement.

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has called on the Bulgarian government to re-evaluate the results of a probe which accuses the Hezbollah resistance movement of involvement in a bomb attack on a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year. Seven people, including five Israelis, were killed in the attack, which took place at Burgas International Airport on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast on July 18, 2012. Israel had earlier blamed Iran and Hezbollah for the attack. Tehran and Hezbollah have rejected the allegation. Media reports indicate that the Bulgarian government has been under pressure by Israel and some Western countries to accuse Hezbollah of being behind the attack.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Redwan Rizk, a political commentator in Beirut, to further shed light on the issue. What follows is an approximate transcript of the interview.

Press TV: Are you seeing the timing of this announcement by Bulgaria as some are indicating as an act under Israeli pressure? Basically what do you think all this is going to look like?

Rizk: It is very strange for Bulgaria to accuse Hezbollah formally before notifying the Lebanese government and before any further investigation based on very strong evidence.

So the accusation itself is suspected as a conspiracy against Hezbollah during all the matters that are going on into the Middle East or into Lebanon during all this crisis going on in Syria and the Arab world. So it is not strange to see some conspiracies coming from the Europeans trying to put Hezbollah or the Lebanese on the groups that are terrorist groups and forbidden groups from even movements like Jebhat al-Nusra.

So those accusations have no base at all because are based on some movement from the side of the Bulgarian government and as we know, the Bulgarian government has a very strong relations with the Israeli Mossad based on some kind of cooperation between both sides and the investigations so far show that two people, Canadian and Australian, from the Lebanese origin have never entered Lebanon before.

So how come these accusations will not reach anywhere that will even be strong evidence to accuse Hezbollah or to take any further actions against Hezbollah on the international positions. So these accusations are useless and they will not be able at all to affect Hezbollah on the ground.

It is only trying to help the others, the oppositions like connected with the groups in Syria, connected with the groups in Lebanon and we are coming to a new election in Lebanon also. This is part of the Israeli pressure on that.