Saudi-led bloc declares Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group

Washington Post ^ | March 2, 2016 | Hugh Naylor

[SJackson]

BEIRUT -- A Saudi-dominated political bloc on Wednesday formally designated Lebanon's Hezbollah militia a terrorist organization, a move that signals dangerously escalating tensions between regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran.

The Gulf Cooperation Council's decision against the Iranian-allied group comes two weeks after Saudi Arabia canceled $4 billion aid package for strengthening Lebanese security services. Saudi Arabia and other GCC member states have advised their citizens to leave Lebanon.

An announcement posted on the GCC website accused Hezbollah, a powerful Shiite Muslim movement, of unspecified hostile acts in the six states in the bloc: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman.

The growing rifts between Saudi Arabia and Iran have rattled Lebanon, where both nations have competing influence. Saudi Arabia and Iran are also on opposing sides in the neighboring civil war in neighboring Syria, where fighting has killed more than 250,000 people and displaced millions.

[JEDI4S]

That’ll go down well with Buckwheat and his minions. Hamas and Hellzbolla are their friends.

Does this mean we can bomb the $hite out of them?

We should.

[SJackson]

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[PIF]

Sunnis declare Shia terrorists ...

[pgkdan]

And I declare Saudi Arabia a terrorist nation. If the Bush family wasn’t so beholden to the Saudis we would have attacked the Kingdom in 2003...the real power behind the 9-11 attacks. But the Saudi’s ordered an attack on their number one regional enemy at the time and that’s what they got.

[Harpotoo]

Can you believe it! As obama’s version of ameriKa gets further away from Israel SA gets closer! Damn!

[SunkenCiv]

It’s about time.

Russian arms sales may prove costly to Tehran
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3403694/posts

[SunkenCiv]

• Israeli minister: Iran doesn't need one centrifuge (video at link) [2014]
• Iran's Arsenal Of Sunburn Missiles Is More Than Enough To Close The Strait [2012]
• Why is Iran Developing ICBMs? [2013]
• Israelis warn of Eritrea flashpoint [2009]
  • Iran Deploys Troops, Ballistic Missiles To Eritrea [2008]
  • Eritrea warns of "consequences" for U.S. in Somalia [2007]
  • Secret aid for al-Qa'ida in Somalia [2007]
  • U.N. says Somalia arms embargo violated
    (Hezbollah's dirty hands in Somalia and Iran's Mahdi army ) [2006]
• Yemeni Officials Facilitating Iranian Missile Shipments? [2009]
• Jihadis Report Of Syrian Meddling In Yemen [2009]
• Iran: Leader of the Sunni Movements (with an intro by Michael Ledeen) [2008]
• 4 Sunni Muslim Groups Responsible for 66% of All 17,958 Terror Killings in 2013

  [and 85-90% of the world's Muslims are Sunni, IOW, Shiites kill twice as many per capita]

• Israel reportedly bombed arms warehouses in Libya [2015]
  • Breaking: Iran Has Several Military Bases in Libya [2011]
  • Iran Has Several Military Bases In Libya [2011]
• Iran Declares 'Successful' End Of Negotiations With Russia On S-300 System
• Russians help Iran with missile threat to Europe [2005]
• Obama: No, Iran Won't Be More Dangerous with $150 Billion Dollars [2015]
• Time to Recognize the Iranian Resistance [2015]
• Keyword: iranianmissiles

[BlackVeil]

What you say is true - and rather unbelievable. But that’s what happened. And we live with the results.