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Saudi Arabia getting back at Hezbollah’s gains: Commentator

Thursday, 07 April 2016 6:09 AM [ Last Update: Thursday, 07 April 2016 6:08 AM ]

An image grab taken from Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV on January 29, 2016, shows Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanon's resistance movement Hezbollah, giving a televised address from an undisclosed location in Lebanon. (AFP photo)

Press TV has conducted an interview with Mohammad Obaid, political commentator in Beirut, and Richard Hellman, president of Middle East Research Center in Washington, to discuss the latest decision by the Egyptian satellite service provider, Nilesat, to stop airing the Lebanese Hezbollah-run Al-Manar news channel.

Obaid says banning Al-Manar TV channel is part of the conflict that has been going on between Saudi Arabia and Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah.

The commentator also points out that Saudi Arabia is getting back at Hezbollah’s victories and achievements, adding that the resistance group has caused all of Riyadh’s projects to fail in the Middle East.

“This is nothing new. It has culminated and had its ebbs and tides from time to time but this has been the case since at least 2006 up until now. It took the forms of suicide bombings and terrorists coming into the suburbs and blowing themselves up in the streets, killing women and children and all this ideology came from Saudi Arabia, all that financing came from Saudi Arabia,” he says.

Obaid goes on to say that Saudi Arabia’s projects are only to “create a conflict” between Sunni and Shia Muslims in the region.

He further argues that the ideology of “labeling” others only comes from the Wahhabi school of thought.

Hellman, for his part, believes the charges against the Al-Manar news channel are “valid,” given the fact that the United States has declared Hezbollah a terrorist organization as more recently has the Arab League.

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