US responsible for ongoing conflicts in Middle East, around world: Top Hezbollah official

A high-ranking official from the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has held the United States primarily responsible for the creation and continuation of crises in the Middle East region and around the world.

“The US is behind the tragedies and instability in the region. Over the past eighty years, Washington has been creating conflicts, waging wars and backing terrorism worldwide,” Vice President of the Executive Council of Hezbollah Sheikh Ali Damoush said at a ceremony in the Lebanese capital city of Beirut on Saturday evening.

He also blamed the United States is for the Russo-Ukrainian crisis. American officials, Sheikh Damoush added, ignited the geopolitical conflict and worked recklessly to drag the Kiev government in it.

“Washington is responsible for the Ukraine conflict and all the repercussions it will have on the entire word,” the senior Hezbollah official pointed out.

US unsuccessfully attempting to change Lebanon’s patriotic identity, top Hezbollah official says

A senior Hezbollah says the United States is unsuccessfully trying to change the identity of a resilient, strong and patriotic Lebanon.

Sheikh Damoush went on to denounce US sanctions and all other forms of pressure on Lebanon, stating that the measures have pushed the debt-ridden Arab country to the brink of economic collapse.

“It is Washington’s policy to support corrupt officials and pursue the interests of the occupying Israeli regime,” he said.

Since late 2019, Lebanon has been mired in a deep financial crisis that has caused the Lebanese pound to lose around 90 percent of its value to the US dollar and led its banking system to collapse, plunging the bulk of Lebanese into poverty.

The economic and financial crisis is mostly linked to the sanctions that the United States and its allies have imposed on Lebanon as well as foreign intervention in the Arab nation’s domestic affairs.

The top Hezbollah official added, “The US and its allies have long been meddling in Lebanon’s domestic affairs. Washington will intensify its pressure on Beirut within the next few weeks in a bid to back its proxies in the upcoming parliamentary elections and implement its scenarios.”

Sheikh Damoush underlined that the legislative polls will “defend the resistance front and will serve the Lebanese nation’s interests.”

Hezbollah’s presence in government, parliament essential: Nasrallah

Hezbollah Secretary General SayyedHassan Nasrallah underlines the need for the presence of the resistance movement at the Lebanese government and parliament.

On January 30, Sheikh Naim Qassem, deputy leader of Hezbollah, said, “All indications are that the parliamentary elections will take place on time.”

Hezbollah opinion polls across Lebanon showed "the results of the election will be close to the make-up of the current parliament, with slight changes that do not affect the general make-up,” he said.

Hezbollah’s adversaries hope to overturn the majority won by the group and allies including President Michel Aoun’s Christian Free Patriotic Movement in 2018.

‘Hezbollah will never accept Israeli occupation, surrender to US plots’

Separately, Sheikh Qassem said his group will never accept the Israeli occupation and will not capitulate to US conspiracies at all.

Hezbollah keeps specter of war away from Lebanon, says senior official

Hezbollah keeps the specter of war away from Lebanon, says a top official of the Lebanese resistance movement.

“We will never accept Israel’s occupation of our territories at any cost, and we will not give in to American schemes. We will maintain the balance of deterrence and the growing power of Hezbollah in order to protect our nation and liberate our land,” he noted.

Sheikh Qassem also pointed to Hezbollah’s liberation of Lebanese territories, losses inflicted on the Israeli military as well as the purge of Takfiri terrorist groups from the Lebanese soil, emphasizing that Hezbollah fighters “have always been a supporter and a helping hand to the Lebanese army. The army must fulfill its duty to protect Lebanon and its territory.”

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