Hezbollah’s Nasrallah says US using Lebanon protests as a tool to pressure Iran
Lebanese Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan
Nasrallah said that the mass protests in Lebanon were being used as an American
tool to pressure Iran.
In a televised speech on Friday, the Hezbollah
leader also said that the Lebanese government had made the wrong decision to
increase fees, referring to a government revenue-raising measure unveiled in
October in which a charge of 20 cents a day would be levied on calls via
voice-over-internet protocol.
“The Americans see the protests in Lebanon, Iraq,
Syria and now they’re also talking about Yemen, that they are tools to pressure
Iran. These are tools according to them and that they [the Americans] say they
have other tools to pressure Iran on its militant behavior,” Nasrallah said in
his speech.
“The Americans are interfering with any movement
that takes place in the world. They are rushing to try to exploit the popular
movements in a way that serves their interests and not what serves the
interests of the protesters,” Nasrallah added.
Nasrallah’s statements on Friday came more than a
month since his previous speech.
