Nasrallah: Saudis will lose in Yemen
Hezbollah chief slams Saudi-led coalition of Sunni states seeking to oust Shiite rebels, urges Pakistan and Egypt to intervene.
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah told hundreds of supporters Friday at a Beirut rally in support of Yemen's Shiite rebels that Saudi-led airstrikes targeting them have not led to victory.
“Those who aggress on the Yemeni people must seek certificates on Islamism and Arabism,” he said in the televised speech, according to the Daily Star.
“You have taken yourself towards greater threats,” Nasrallah warned the Saudis, said the Daily Star.
Nasrallah said that the kingdom will soon realize that "the only choice left" is a ground operation in Yemen -- a "ground invasion will be costly and will end with a defeat."
Nasrallah urged Egypt, Pakistan and the Islamic world to intervene in Yemen in order to prevent "the destruction of one of the Prophet's nations, just as in 1926 Saudi Arabia planned to destroy the Prophet Mohammed's grave".
He added that "it's time for the Arabs, the Muslims, and the world to tell the Saudis – enough!"
Nasrallah also lashed out at Saudi Arabia's strict ultraconservative Wahhabi brand of Sunni Islam, which has been adopted as the ideology of militant groups such as al-Qaida, the Islamic State and al-Qaeda's branch in Syria known as Jabhat al-Nusra.
He accused the kingdom of spreading extremist ideology through schools it funds in Muslim nations. "Who is teaching this ideology in elementary, secondary and high schools and universities?" Nasrallah asked.
The Daily Star reported on Thursday that Hezbollah deputy chief Naim Qassem had called Saudi actions in Yemen "identical to what Israel commits in Gaza."
Associated Press contributed to this report.
