Iran’s Top Security Official:

Germany Blacklisted Hezbollah Out of Fear

Date: 02 May 2020 - 21:50

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TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) says Germany has blacklisted Lebanon’s Hezbollah because it is afraid of the "child-killing” Israel.
"Sellers of chemical weapons to Saddam have become human rights defenders, out of fear of their child-killing friend, [and] called Hezbollah, terrorist,” tweeted Ali Shamkhani, referring to the occupying regime of Israel.
The tweet made a reference to the 1980-1988 imposed war against Iran, when Germany was among the countries providing Saddam Hussein with substances needed to build chemical weapons which the former Iraqi dictators indiscriminately used against Iranian civilians and troops.
Shamkhani’s remarks come after Germany designated Hezbollah as a terrorist group on Thursday and ordered raids on various Shia cultural and religious sites for alleged links to the resistance movement.
Later in the day, Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas accused Hezbollah of threatening violence and denying "Israel’s right to exist”.
Hezbollah’s popularity for shattering Israel’s myth of invincibility among the Arab public opinion has worried the Zionist regime and the West. Its military engagement in the Syria war has also turned the movement into a seasoned force, where many Western observers have described Hezbollah as the most powerful Arab "army”.
Germany has long been known for its controversial support for terrorists and oppressive forces in the region, most recently facilitating terrorist presence and foreign-backed terrorism in Syria and Iraq.
It is responsible along with other European states for allowing extremists from across Europe to join Daesh in 2014 with the aim of toppling the Syrian government.
In his tweet, Shamkhani noted that foreign-backed Daesh terrorism would have targeted Europe if it weren’t for resistance forces such as Hezbollah.
"Daesh did not reach Europe because it was stuck behind the walls of Resistance. The mask fell down the face of terrorism supporters,” he said.
The German government has also been accused of helping the U.S. assassinate Iran’s top anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani earlier this year.
Germany has been a longtime safe haven and supporter of the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) which has martyred thousands of innocent Iranians.
In an opinion piece published on Saturday, chief editor Kayhan newspaper Hussein Shariatmadari ridiculed the German government’s excuses for blacklisting Hezbollah.
Highlighting deep Israeli influence in the German economy and also in the Bundestag which oversees the country’s budget and determines the country’s chancellor, Shariatmadari said Berlin is effectively "in rent for the Zionists”.
"We have to tell the German government and Chancellor Angela Merkel that blacklisting Lebanon’s Hezbollah is an order dictated to you from Israel and not a decision you have taken independently,” Shariatmadari wrote.
The blacklisting of Hezbollah by Germany has prompted condemnations across the Middle East.
Syria, Iran and Yemen have condemned Germany for complying with U.S. and Israeli "dictates” to ban Hezbollah.
Speaking with the pan-Arab Al Mayadeen news network, senior Iraqi parliamentarian Hassan Salem said, "By labeling Hezbollah as a terrorist group, Germany has humiliatingly submitted to Israel and the U.S.”
"Germany’s decision to blacklist Hezbolllah shows clear bias favoring the occupation which continues its aggression and terror against Arab states,” said Hazem Qassem, spokesperson of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) also described Berlin’s measure as a result of its submission to Washington and Tel Aviv.
The group expressed its support for the resistance movement and praised Hezbollah as one of the "cornerstones” of the Lebanese resistance against Israeli aggression.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) also condemned the measure, saying the move seeks to weaken Hezbollah’s standing in Lebanon as the country is rocked by economic crisis and protests.