Tehran, YJC. Foreign Minister says that the act by the EU to blacklist the Lebanese Hezbollah as a terrorist group is not acceptable.
Pointing
to the EU designating Hezbollah as terrorist, Iran’s Minister of Foreign
Affairs Aliakbar Salehi said "The oriented act which was carried out with
pressures by some influential EU members defies all political and legal
standards, and is astonishing and unacceptable.”
"The
fact that a resistance group is designated terrorist which fights intrusion and
occupation and holds a legal and publically supported presence in Lebanon is
indicative of the frail bases of such act,” Salehi asserted.
Salehi
said that through such acts, EU foreign ministers think to be exerting
influence on regional developments, while in fact what they do is put up a show
of double standards.
Salehi
pointed out "Not only does the Islamic Republic of Iran strongly denounce the
EU’s decision, but it believes that such acts do not make a change in their
public, rightful campaign. No doubt the EU’s act was in line with the illegitimate
demands of the Zionist regime and carried out under pressure from the regime’s advocates
in Europe.”
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