RNA - Here the main question is whether a regime like Saudi Arabia which has waged an unjustified war on Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, in alliance with regional and trans-regional allies, including the United States, Britain, and France, has higher standards and noble beliefs?
This is a regime that according to the Human Rights Watch and many other refugee advocates and rights groups, including Amnesty International, is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Yemen. Saudi Arabia is also pushing for regime change in Syria in alliance with various terrorist groups and extremist outfits. In addition, it is heading a UN Human Rights Council Panel, and the hypocrisy behind this decision need hardly be stated.
It gets more interesting to hear that the same regime has gone even further and designated the Lebanese resistance group of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization - in collaboration with the Arab Parliament, the Arab League, and the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council!
What we got here is the contrivance of a false appearance of Saudi virtue, while concealing real character and inclinations, especially with respect to the ongoing War on Terror; hence in general sense, dissimulation, pretense, and sham.
It is precisely within this context that Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has denounced the recent Saudi-led campaign against Hezbollah, praising the Lebanese movement as a source of pride for Muslims, indeed for humanity.
In his words, “Let’s suppose a corrupt, sycophantic, hollow regime condemns Hezbollah in a statement with money and petrodollars; to hell with it! How much does it matter? Hezbollah and its youths are shining as the Sun and are a source of pride for the Muslim world.”
The Iranian Leader’s remarks are spot-on:
* It was Hezbollah which single-handedly managed to drive Israeli troops out of southern Lebanon and thrash their invincibility myth for good - something that all the Arab armies failed to do together in the Arab-Israeli wars of the 1950s and 1960s.
* It was Hezbollah which in alliance with Iran, Syria, and Russia managed to defeat the foreign-backed terrorist groups on many fronts in Syria. On the diplomatic and political front, Hezbollah has equally been the winner. The international civil society is now behind the Resistance Front’s campaign against terrorism, just as they did during the Hezbollah-Israeli war in 2006.
Taken together, the Saudi failure to grasp the nature of Hezbollah has caused a failure to grasp the predictable results in Lebanon and Syria. Not only are the foreign-backed terrorist groups unable to win the war on Syria, the Resistance Front will not lose it.
Obviously, Saudi Arabia has had a tough time over the past year in dealing with the Hezbollah of Lebanon. Therefore, Riyadh, which has had little choice in the current conflict in Syria, is desperate to save face by doing whatever it can, i.e., designating Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
In the face of such hypocrisy, it is crucial to assert that the new Saudi-led campaign against Hezbollah will only produce further unity and resolve among the resistance fighters in Syria. It will in no way force the resistance into retreat from its lawful cause.
By expressing their hostility toward the Resistance Front, the Saudi-led hypocrites once again made it clear that they have no higher standards and noble beliefs, and certainly no intension to target terrorism and extremism in the Middle East.
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