Iraq’s FM: Hezbollah Preserved Dignity of the Arabs

CAIRO-The Saudi delegation at the Arab League walk out of a meeting of the body after Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari defended the country’s volunteer forces and Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, a report says according to Press TV.

“The Saudi delegation withdrew from the meeting hall after the speech of Foreign Minister Al-Jaafari who rejected speaking against Hashd al-Shaabi

(Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces) and other resistance groups,” an Iraqi foreign ministry source told Reuters on Friday referring to an Arab League meeting on the same day.

“In his speech he said that Hashd al-Shaabi and Hezbollah have preserved the dignity of the Arabs and those who call terrorists are the terrorists,” the source said.

Saudi Arabia has already accused Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement of being a “terrorist organization.”

Also on March 2, the Gulf Cooperation Council issued a statement labeling Hezbollah a terrorist organization.

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