[ALMASDARNEWS] US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged the Lebanese people to "stand up to Hezbollah’s criminality, terror and threats," during on his first official visit to Leb on Friday."Frankly, Leb and the Lebanese people face a choice: bravely move forward as an independent and proud nation or allow the dark ambitions of Iran and Hezbollah to dictate your future," Pompeo said during a joint presser with Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil.
"We have confirmed that Hezbollah is for us a non-terrorist Lebanese party and it elected representatives from the Lebanese people, a large popular establishment," Bassil said. "It’s classification as terrorism is a matter for the country that classifies it as such."