Hezbollah head hails electoral ‘victory’ as protection from calls to disarm
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(Worthy News) – The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Monday praised provisional parliamentary election results as vindicating his Shiite group’s armed operations.
“This is a great political and moral victory for the resistance option that protects the sovereignty of the country,” Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised address.
A day after Lebanon’s first general election in nine years, Hezbollah and its allies looked set to secure a bloc large enough to block attempts for it to disarm, a longstanding demand of its political enemies, and give it a larger say in the county’s defense policies. [ Source: Times of Israel (Read More…) ]
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