Lebanon’s Hezbollah denies supplying Houthis with weapons

The leader of Lebanese Hezbollah movement denied sending weapons to Yemen or being behind the ballistic missile which the Houthis fired against Riyadh earlier this month.

“We did not send weapons to Yemen, Bahrain or Iraq,” the movement’s Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah, said in a televised address, adding, “we did not send weapons to any Arab country, not ballistic missiles, sophisticated weapons or even a pistol.”

Nasrallah has categorically denied the accusations against his movement saying: “No man from the Lebanese Hezbollah has any connection with the launching of this missile.”

Nasrallah said the movement has sent weapons only to two places, Palestine and Syria where its fighters are engaged in the conflict.

He appealed to the Arab countries to call on Saudi Arabia to stop its war in Yemen.

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Nasrallah said the accusation against his movement was not new. “We heard it during previous meetings for the Arab foreign ministers and therefore there is nothing to call for tension.”

Following a meeting on Sunday, the foreign ministers of the Arab League issued

During their meeting on Sunday, the Arab foreign ministers condemned “Iranian interference in the internal affairs of Arab countries”.

The ministers called upon the Arab group in New York to contact President of the UN Security Council to clarify Iran’s violations of UN Security Council resolution 2216 by supplying weapons to militias in Yemen and to consider the launching of an Iranian-made ballistic missile from Yemen towards Riyadh as an aggression by Iran and a threat to national and international security and peace.