According to Israeli media, Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, declared on Thursday that the US is the “root” of all Middle Eastern crises.
Nasrallah declared at a memorial event for a Lebanese Muslim scholar that “the main problem (in the Middle East) is the scandalous and crude American interference in everything,” according to a story on the website of Israel’s English newspaper The Jerusalem Post.
“We are facing a culture and policy based on submission to the Americans, who break all their promises,” Nasrallah was quoted as saying.
“The two-state solution is fading because of America,” he said, referring to the U.S. inaction on ending the stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process since 2014.
He further stated that Lebanese should “pour out their anger” on “tyrannical America” for causing a power deficit in Lebanon owing to the “American ban on Egyptian gas and Jordanian electricity.”
Nasrallah has long been a vocal opponent of the United States. In March, he accused the United States of being a “partner” in Lebanon’s corruption and of impeding the flow of deposits, loans, and investments into the country.
