Lebanon's Hezbollah confident of Iran's stance towards "resistance"

Lebanon's Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah stressed Saturday that Iran's support for his party would not change following the nuclear deal.

"Iran's president and officials have reiterated that the country's stance towards Hezbollah would not change," Nasrallah said at the Shahed Educational Complex in Beirut's southern suburbs.

"We are proud of Iran's financial and moral support to us," he stressed.

After the nuclear deal, Obama reiterated that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization and stressed that the U.S. policy is aimed at confronting Hezbollah to appease Israel, he said.

"There has been an objective to end the role of the resistance in Lebanon. But they have failed," Nasrallah said.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury Department slapped sanctions on three Hezbollah leaders and a Lebanese businessman.

The action freezes the assets of all four and prevents Americans from engaging in transactions with them, it said.

"Sanctions on Hezbollah members don't make a difference because they neither have money nor have made deposits in banks worldwide," Nasrallah pointed.

But Nasrallah said that Lebanese businessmen and businesses are being targeted by the sanctions. Endit