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Saudi blocking Syria peace talks: Hezbollah chief
[Al Ahram] The head of powerful Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah and key Damascus ally Hassan Nasrallah on Monday accused Soddy Arabia...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... of blocking a political solution to the conflict in Syria. Nasrallah said the Gulf kingdom was "furious because the situation in Syria has not worked out in its favour", in a speech broadcast on a large screen set up in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold. Riyadh has been a key backer of rebel groups fighting to topple the government of Syrian  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Leveler of Latakia... since March 2011. "Today, political dialogue and the search for a political solution are enjoying international, regional and interior support ... but there is a state in the region which is furious (about the proposed Geneva II peace conference), and its name is Saudi Arabia," Nasrallah charged. Relations between Washington and Riyadh have been strained since the United States backed away from military action against Assad over alleged chemical weapons attacks in August. Ties have worsened further between the two allies over Washington's recent engagement with Iran, Saudi Arabia's arch-foe in the region. Nasrallah said that the oil-rich Gulf kingdom had sent imported muscle, weapons and money to back Syrian rebels fighting the government in Damascus to bring about Assad's fall. "But it didn't work," said Nasrallah, who has admitted sending Hezbollah fighters to battle alongside government troops in Syria as they seek to crush rebel forces. "The region cannot be torn apart by war because a state is furious and is trying to hinder any political dialogue and push back Geneva II," he said. "Their obstinacy is pointless," he added. Posted by: Fred 2013-10-29 |
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