JERUSALEM POST
Lebanese foreign minister denounces Arab League’s designation of Hezbollah as terror group
by Staff
March 13, 2016

Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil said on Sunday that the Arab League’s motion last Friday to list Hezbollah as a terror group was “unacceptable.”…Lebanon has a deeply divided political landscape, with power-sharing between the country’s Sunni, Shi’ite and Christian communities often fraught with difficulties and deadlock…The move to list Hezbollah as a terror group reflects the deepening broader conflict between the Iran-led Shi’ite axis on one side, and Gulf-backed Sunni states and groups in the region on the other. Reacting to the earlier Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) move to list the group as a terror organization, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said on Thursday, “Saudi Arabia is angry with Hezbollah since it is daring to say what only a few others dare to say against its royal family.” READ MORE