Alwaght- Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, has urged some banks in the country to reject a United States conspiracy against the resistance.
The call came after reports that more than 3,000 bank accounts, allegedly tied to Hezbollah are to be frozen in the coming days under pressure from the US.
Those to be affected include “employees, partners, customers affiliated with the party,” Saudi daily Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Friday, citing a source within Lebanon’s Central Bank.
Hezbollah officials say implementing the US commands is similar to backstabbing the Resistance. Hezbollah officials believe implementing the accounts freeze is similar to previous attempts to disarm the resistance movement. According to Lebanese daily, Al-Akhbar, Hezbollah has urged owners of some of the country’s banks, including the Central Bank to refrain from implementing the US policy.
The paper said US officials show ‘keenness’ to use the Lebanese banking sector as one of their most important tools to carry out their policies in the country. The paper quoted the sources as saying that the negative impacts of such decision by some Banks would not be limited to Hezbollah, public, or Shiite Muslims only, but would harm a wide range of institutions, suppliers and insurance companies, whose owners belong to different regions, communities and political affiliations. “The Lebanese social security is threatened as a whole, not only a political or sectarian group.”
In a weekly meeting for Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc, the party warned that remarks by the Governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon Riad Salameh about the suspension of 100 Hezbollah-linked bank accounts reflect an inclination to renounce national sovereignty.
“The policy of blackmail and various types of pressures that the US administrations practice against countries and forces that are opposed to their policies will never manage to arm-twist Hezbollah or change its stances against the US tyranny and injustice,” the statement read.
The resistance movement warned that such policies are doomed to fail and held the government and the Central Bank responsible for protecting Lebanon’s sovereignty and its monetary and social stability.
