The Loyalty to the Resistance parliamentary bloc on Thursday deprecated the fresh U.S. sanctions against MP Gebran Bassil as “political calumny” and a “hostility”, stressing the move comes in the context of isolating Hezbollah in order to impose on Lebanon a normalization deal with the Zionist enemy.
“Placing the name of minister Gebran Bassil and other Lebanese ministers on the list of sanctions is political calumny, not a hostility and an unjust procedure,” the bloc said in a statement issued following its weekly meeting in Haret Hreik.
The bloc voiced commitment to the content of Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah’s speech Wednesday night, reiterating loyalty to the path of the Resistance’s martyrs pertaining the preservation of the national achievement and the balance of deterrence with the enemy, the efforts to serve the people and collaborate with the other blocs to pass the needed laws.
On a different note, the bloc called for speeding up the formation of the new government, underscoring the political and administrative need for it.
“The U.S. administration must bear the legal and moral responsibility of any negative impact on those names, at least outside the USA,” the bloc added.
Commenting on the U.S. presidential elections, the bloc said: “America’s growing predicament cannot be solved by a change of presidents; it rather requires the modification of strategic policies.”
The bloc also highlighted the importance of abiding by the anti-coronavirus measures and the total lockdown approved by the Higher Defense council.
Loyalty to Resistance bloc hailed the families of the martyrs for their sacrifices, stressing that choosing November 11 for Martyr Day because it recall the heroic martyrdom operation carried out by the martyr Ahmad Kassir against the Israeli occupation command headquarters in 1982.
Source: Al-Manar English Website and NNA
