Alwaght- The Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement welcomed the election of Michel Aoun as president and called on all parties to help form an “all-inclusive” government.
Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said his movement has been unjustly accused of blocking the election for two and a half year but it welcomes the final result.
“We were honest since the very beginning in our endorsement of Michel Aoun as president, and we spared no effort for the election to achieve its goals,” he said in a televised speech to a ceremony to honor the martyrdom anniversary of Hezbollah commander Hajj Mustafa Shahadah in Syria back in October 2014.
Nasrallah also rejected allegations that the stalemate in presidential election was linked to the Iranian nuclear negotiations and the war in Syria.
Describing his movement’s relations with the president Michel Aoun as “only trust”, he also hailed parliament speaker Nabih Berri as the guardian of the country in times of difficulty.
Nasrallah further stated that Hezbollah did not name Saad al-Hariri to form a new government as prime minister, stressing that the resistance movement solely offered all “possible facilities for his nomination.”
Elsewhere in his remarks, Nasrallah rejected allegations that the recent Yemeni missile attack against Saudi Arabia was aimed at Islam's holiest and most revered site.
“The propaganda claiming that the Yemenis fired a Ballistic rocket at Mecca is a big sarcastic lie,” he stated.
Late on October 27, Yemeni soldiers and their allies fired an indigenous Borkan-1 (Volcano-1) missile towards King Abdulaziz International Airport, located 19 kilometers north of the western Saudi port city of Jeddah.
