Iran, too. And this statement about Lebanon is really all about Iran as well: “Saudi Arabia accused Lebanon on Monday of declaring war against it because of aggression by the Iran-backed Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah, a dramatic escalation of a crisis threatening to destabilize the tiny Arab country.”
Hizballah is indeed a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and is deeply involved in jihad terror and destabilization efforts worldwide, as I detail in my book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran.
“Saudi Arabia says Lebanon has declared war against its kingdom,” Reuters, November 7, 2017:
BEIRUT – Saudi Arabia accused Lebanon on Monday of declaring war against it because of aggression by the Iran-backed Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah, a dramatic escalation of a crisis threatening to destabilize the tiny Arab country.
Lebanon has been thrust to the center of regional rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran since the Saudi-allied Lebanese politician Saad al-Hariri quit as prime minister on Saturday, blaming Iran and Hezbollah in his resignation speech.
Saudi Gulf affairs minister Thamer al-Sabhan said the Lebanese government would “be dealt with as a government declaring war on Saudi Arabia” because of what he described as aggression by Hezbollah.
Faulting the Hariri-led administration for failing to take action against Hezbollah during a year in office, Sabhan said “there are those who will stop (Hezbollah) and make it return to the caves of South Lebanon,” the heartland of the Shi’ite community.
In an interview with Al-Arabiya TV, he added: “Lebanese must all know these risks and work to fix matters before they reach the point of no return.”
He did not spell out what action Saudi Arabia might take against Lebanon, a country with a weak and heavily indebted state that is still rebuilding from its 1975-90 civil war and where one-in-four people is a Syrian refugee.
There was no immediate comment from the Lebanese government.
Hezbollah is both a military and a political organization that is represented in the Lebanese parliament and in the Hariri-led coalition government formed last year.
Its powerful guerrilla army is widely seen as stronger than the Lebanese army, and has played a major role in the war in neighboring Syria, another theater of Saudi-Iranian rivalry where Hezbollah has fought in support of the government.
Lebanese authorities said on Monday the country’s financial institutions could cope with Hariri’s resignation and the stability of the Lebanese pound was not at risk.
But the cash price of Lebanon’s U.S. dollar-denominated bonds fell, with longer-dated maturities suffering hefty losses as investors took a dim view of the medium- to longer-term outlook for Lebanon.
Hariri cited a plot to assassinate him during his unexpected resignation speech broadcast from Saudi Arabia which caught even his aides off guard. He also slammed Hezbollah and Iran, accusing them of sowing strife in the Arab world.
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has said he will not comment on Hariri’s speech, calling it a “Saudi statement” and saying Riyadh had forced Hariri to resign.
The sudden nature of Hariri’s resignation generated speculation in Lebanon that his family’s Saudi construction business had been caught up in an anti-corruption purge and he had been coerced into resigning.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir said it was “nonsense” to suggest Hariri had been coerced into quitting in a CNN interview on Monday. Hariri had quit because Hezbollah had been “calling the shots” in the government, he said. Hariri, a Saudi citizen, was free to leave the country at any time, he said….
Krazy Kafir says
Will the Saudis snap their fingers like they did 27 year ago and get the American stooges to fight their battles for…… FREE…… freeing up legions of billions to spread wahhabi mosques all throughout America?
underbed cat says
No kidding I truly hope Trump does not take the bait….ally of the U.S. leaves him in a bad situation…maybe this is why there is sudden talk about loosening up the restrictions for woman in Saudi Arabia….either he Salman agrees or he is doing so to allow/ deceiving the U.S, to believe he King Salaman wants reform, a complete 90 degree turn away from the Quran since it states nothing can be changed and found that cars are not from woman in the quran but only if men decide it should be……a little wiggle room. We have trained too many muslim soldiers while they slaughter against another terror group and occasionally turn their weapons against U.S. soldiers…then remove leaders and write up sharia law constitutions for the enemy. Who was Saudi Arabia bombing? I don’t have all the information maybe to write this up but it has been trying to figure out the all the events. So why was SAF in Las Vegas? Why did Paddock send money to Philippines so many times and travel…who was he supporting ? Was he a convert or a set up to be the racist white bigot shooter…with no ideology to protect once again the ideology.
Krazy Kafir says
A missile was fired from Yemen at Saudi Arabia, and the Saudis are pointing the finger at Iran claiming it’s an act of war. The Saudis know that the tension with the US and Iran is high right now because of the traitorous agreement Obama made with them, and Trump wanting to scrap it. Perhaps they can pick a fight with Iran, and snap their fingers, at their kafir lackeys, to join in (read, do it all for them) the war with Iran. Perhaps, they also see that Trump is on his tippy toes with the swamp water lapping at his chin.
Ciudadano says
So far Christians in Lebanon have spared the horrors of war and terrorism. I hope they don’t suffer the same fate than christians in Syria and Iraq trapped in the middle of this Saudi Arabia vs Iran war.
Jack Diamond says
Christians in Lebanon suffered plenty in the civil war that started in 1975 with the introduction of the PLO into the country. They weren’t spared much. Now more than a million Syrians are in Lebanon, leaving their war zone, causing more problems (and remember the Lebanese Education Minister saying there were at least 20,000 ISIS jihadis in their refugee camps). Now we have the prospect of another hot war with Hizballah/Iran. Islam is the gift that keeps giving.
Sarah says
You’re kidding, right? Why do you think the Lebanese Civil War produced so many migrants?
The Christians were hunted like animals. Ironically, I note that the Lebanese Muslims were the ones to run off for greener pastures.
Like with the Sudan Civil War. The Christians were hunted – the Muslims ran away, after committing horrific atrocities, for greener pastures.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Jack and Sarah.
Peter Buckley says
Islam’s self-destructive seed. All the West has to do is side with the SA, as disgusting a place as it is, to help bring down the far more dangerous mullahs. Could well be the beginning of the end of the mullahs’ rule.
Meanwhile, in Lebanon, more muslims continue to convert:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/30/muslim-refugees-converting-christianity-find-safety/
Islam can’t be saved now…………
St. Manuel II Palaiologos says
The reason why Islam is so loved is because human nature is so tainted. I think Islam will continue as long as human beings are the way they are.
Chand says
St. Manuel II Palaiologos says ” I think Islam will continue as long as human beings are the way they are.”
Sure. That’s because human beings are basically genetic robots, pre-programmed to make more robots like themselves. And the primitive creed of Islam is the perfect program for this: suppress the Other; disallow abortions to out-breed the Other and prevent the spread of scientific knowledge that might lead one to question all this.
While other religions too were thus, they have reformed and modernized. Islam surely will go that path too. Science and modernity is too strong a force for Arabian Fascism to stop it.
Chand says
p.s. I meant…………..”disallow abortions and birth control”
gravenimage says
Peter–with all respect–the idea that we should side with murderous Muslim thugs who run a hideous Shari’ah state and perpetrated 9/11 is suicidal.
Leave these thugs to their own devices. Sunnis and Shia have always been slaughtering each other.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
Saudi Arabia is a huge problem concerning it underhand support of terrorism in finance and the propagation of its brand of Islam throughout its Mosques throughout the Western World.
Iran is the same. The conflict between Iran and Saudi: which they kill each other, is nothing more than which brand of Islam is correct.
Both want to dominate the Western world and are united on that front, they are equally dangerous and have the ability to gain those in the West through their inherent appetite of personal gain.
gravenimage says
All true.
St. Manuel II Palaiologos says
I’d take Iran over Saudi Arabia any day. Iran is isolated because of it’s Shi’ite and Persian civilization, Saudi Arabia has far more geopolitical power, influence and damage.
WorkingClassPost says
Agree 100%
Bad as Iran is today, Saudi is worse.
There’s also the fact that Iranians still remember the pre-Ayatollah time, and there are very many in Iran who would ditch the present regime in a heartbeat.
We are in danger of taking the wrong side, again.
Chand says
Agreed.
gravenimage says
We should not take any side. This is like Alien vs. Predator.
TH says
Hezbollah began as a reaction to Israel’s invasion of Lebanon back in the 1980s. It is well known that that was a foolish adventure and only strengthened Iran’s position in Lebanon..
gravenimage says
Oh, good grief–Muslims were using Lebanon as a platform from which to murder Israelis. Trying to put an end to that is not a “foolish adventure”.
In any case, Muslims do not need an excuse to slaughter Jews.
Stephen Slater says
The only Muslims protecting Christians and actually fighting the Quranikazes in the region are Hizbullah.Stop pushing the Zionist world view which couldn’t care less about Christians or Islam destroying the west and has no problem dealing with the Saudis and ISIS if it benefits Israel.
gravenimage says
The vile Stephen Slater wrote:
The only Muslims protecting Christians and actually fighting the Quranikazes in the region are Hizbullah.
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Good God, what rot. The idea that Hizb’allah–which very name means “Party of Allah”–is opposed to the Qur’an is simply ludicrous.
More:
Stop pushing the Zionist world view which couldn’t care less about Christians or Islam destroying the west and has no problem dealing with the Saudis and ISIS if it benefits Israel.
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What vicious calumny. Israel is the only place in the Middle East were Christians are safe and can freely practice their faith.
And the idea that Israel deals with Saudi Arabia is absurd. Saudi Arabia doesn’t allow anyone with an Israeli passport into the country, and they have no diplomatic relations with Israel at all.
And the claim that Israel has dealings with ISIS is just false.
Israel is our only ally in the Middle East, whether this moron grasps that or not.
mortimer says
There they go again. The Shi’ite-Sunnite Split… isn’t an after dinner desert. It began AS SOON AS Mohammed was murdered by Abu Bakr and Omar so they could take over the Arab imperialist movement and enrich their families.
The psychopaths of early Islam have lots of DESCENDANTS who are more than willing to GENOCIDALLY murder fellow Muslims of another sect of Islam.
A major war between I-ran and Soddy Barbaria is not at all far-fetched. Genocides, here they come!
Genocide is normative Islam, rather than an aberration.
gravenimage says
All grimly true.
Voytek Gagalka says
And Saudi Arabia is afraid of such a small country like Lebanon with which it does not even have common border? Why they bother with Lebanon? Everything that Lebanon does or not depends only on Tehran.
gravenimage says
It seems that Saudi Arabia is poised to go to war with entire Shia world–and Shia Hizb’allah is a major power in Lebanon–perhaps *the* major power at this point.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
it is now evident that saud Royal family are Zionists hating anyone who oppose evil state of Israhell. They will soon go. Idiots!!
Jack Diamond says
You’re just a sore loser, it face. Good to hear the Jews are so all-powerful. Be afraid, be very afraid, lunatic. Was a shoe missing this morning?
Say goodbye to the caliphate, and don’t think Hizballah and Iran are going to get away without being mortally wounded. Along with the evil Saudis (evil because of their Islam not their kuffar). Both declared war on the United States on 9/11 (actually Iran in 1979 but let’s not nitpick).
Why aren’t you dying with your boots on in Syria? Chicken shit?
Sarah says
Good Lord. You absolute idiot.
You hate the Jewish for being Zionists. You hate the West for being Zionists. Now you hate the most fundamental bunch of Sunni Muslims on the planet – for apparently being Zionists.
Yes, let’s just let that sink in, for a moment. You are calling a bunch of feral Wahhabists, Zionists.
You are too stupid, to be left to operate a potato peeler without supervision. You really are.
I don’t think you have the faintest idea as to what a ‘Zionistst’ actually is, you inexcusable waste of oxygen.
Its just a convenient insult you shriek at literally everyone and anyone who you don’t agree with, huh?
Chand says
OOps!! I think Ibrahim Itace is Shia. Earlier I thought he was Sunni. I’m confused…………sorry.
gravenimage says
He might be Shia–I have guessed that he might be.
Of course, he might be Sunni but just supports a different gang of Jihad thugs. Hard to tell.
John Hawk says
So the Ummah continues to feed on its own innards. Of course, I suppose it depends on whose Ummah you consider authentic although it matters very little in the scheme of things. They all follow the same psychotic Allah and his “messenger,” vile and morally bankrupt Muhammad. Leave a little for the buzzards, fellas.
Sarah says
Oh great. Well, as an Australian I can vouch for the reality of Lebanese migrants.
They are oafish, rough as guts, tracksuit wearing thugs who breed like rabbits and who hit the ground running as soon as they arrive with organized crime syndicates.
And that’s all I care about, with regards to the idiot Saudi’s declaring war left right and centre, right now. Hell for all I care, I hope they blow each other up. They can knock their socks of with it all, for all I care. But I know full well that all it means is a constant stream of god-rotting Muslims demanding entrance into our nations.
And the Lebs are nothing but trouble. Ask Sydney. They got the lions share of that feral bunch. They are just trouble. Welfare sucking, crime loving, feral child breeding oafish thugs.
Chand says
Too late now. But their next generation will surely become more civilized with better education and nurture. Have hope, Sarah.
Older Canadian says
Nieve
gravenimage says
Chand wrote:
Too late now. But their next generation will surely become more civilized with better education and nurture. Have hope, Sarah.
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Younger generations of Muslims overall are even more fervent Muslims than their parents, and more apt to wage violent Jihad. This is as true in Australia as in the rest of the West.
Older Canadian says
So what else is new?
If I only had one wish, it would be that this 1400 year old battle would cease.