Hizballah’s War Of Shadows With Saudi Arabia Comes Into The Light -- Time
As the sectarian violence of Syria's conflict spills over, the proxy struggles between Lebanon's influential Shiite organization Hizballah and the staunchly Sunni kingdom of Saudi Arabia have turned into open war
Speeches by Hizballah head Hassan Nasrallah are usually predictable affairs. Each time he speaks, be it in front of the podium or from a secure, undisclosed location, the bearded, turbaned and bespectacled leader blends fiery rhetoric, anti-western exhortations and bombast in a familiar pattern designed to inspire his followers, fire up new recruits and strike fear into enemy Israel. But in an interview with Lebanese TV station OTV late Tuesday night, he went radically off script, zeroing in on a new target for his rhetorical darts: Saudi Arabia.
Nasrallah rarely mentions Saudi Arabia by name, only referring to the monarchy in vague terms in order to maintain plausible deniability. But that all changed on Tuesday, when he accused Saudi agents of being behind the suicide bomb attack on the Iranian Embassy in Beirut last month that claimed 23 lives. In doing so he has openly declared a war that has long been fought in the shadows, first in Lebanon where Hizballah-allied parties are at a political impasse with the Saudi-backed Future Movement of Saad Hariri, and now in Syria, where Hizballah, with Iranian assistance, is fighting on the side of President Bashar Assad against Saudi-backed rebels.
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Update #1: Hezbollah chief accuses Saudi intelligence of being behind Iran Embassy bombings in Beirut -- FOX News/AP
Update #2: Saudi-linked group behind Iran embassy attack: Hezbollah -- Daily Star
My Comment: This is open warfare .... and I expect this conflict to escalate further with Hezbollah targeting Saudi interests in the Middle East and maybe within Saudi Arabia itself.
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