Nasrallah to Saudi Arabia: Enough is enough

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“Enough,” Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said, addressing thousands of his party’s supporters gathered in Beirut’s southern suburbs. “It's about time Muslims and Arabs raise their voices and tell Saudi Arabia enough is enough."

The rally took the verbal escalation to a higher level, especially after former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri's Future Movement responded harshly to Nasrallah’s previous speeches and remarks by the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Saudi Arabia and its war on Yemen.

There are serious fears in Lebanon that the tension surrounding Yemen might shake the already vulnerable security of the country that has been without a president since May 2014.

Hariri tweeted shortly after Nasrallah’s speech, accusing him of “falsification and deception” regarding the Yemeni conflict, noting that Hezbollah’s Yemen rhetoric is “imported from Iran” and does not serve Lebanon's interest.

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1. Lebanese factions battle to control Yemen narrative

With tensions inflamed as the Saudi-led war in Yemen drags on, a fight for public influence is being waged in Lebanon.

Nour Samaha | 18 Apr 2015 12:03 GMT | War & Conflict, Politics

Beirut - In a rally held to protest the Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen, Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah accused Saudi Arabia of being responsible for the emergence and growth of groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and al-Qaeda.

"Where did the ideology of the groups that are destroying societies and countries come from? From which school of thought and books? From whose fatwas? Who is spreading this ideology across the world and building schools everywhere to teach Muslim youths this destructive takfiri ideology?" Nasrallah asked in his speech on Friday.

"Today, al-Qaeda and its branches - al-Nusra Front, ISIL, Boko Haram, al-Shabab - where did they all come from? Take a look at their books and ideology. Very clearly it is Saudi Arabia," he said. On Yemen, Nasrallah added: "It is about time Muslims and Arabs told Saudi Arabia enough is enough."

"What Hezbollah is doing now is definitely unprecedented," Nicholas Noe, a political analyst with expertise on Hezbollah, told Al Jazeera. "It has never spoken this way on Saudi Arabia in public, and for decades it has been particularly careful not to attack the Saudi royal family, even if it's been saying it privately for a while. This is the first time it's ever gone this far [in its rhetoric]."

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/04/lebanese-factions-battle-control-yemen-narrative-150418074321723.html

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2. It is only a matter of time before this war gets extended to Lebanon and Iran.

The fire is being stoked.

Israel, Saudi Arabia and the GCC are counting on the US burning down their remaining Shi'ia regional rivals.