Off the wire
• Uganda's Ekiring regains top badminton ranking in Africa  • Zuma seeks help from traditional leaders in fighting racism  • 5.4-magnitude quake hits Morocco, no casualties so far  • Chinese car market has great potential: Audi CEO  • Feature: Children isolated on front line of refugee crisis  • China's Yang and Yi win golds at ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup  • Pakistan calls for understanding with India on airbase attack probe  • 2 Israeli Arabs charged with planning IS-inspired attacks  • Norway's seafood exports grow by 29 pct in Feb.  • 3rd Ld Writethru-China Headlines: Maintaining growth theme of political events  
You are here: 　 Home

Iran condemns GCC's statement on Hezbollah

Xinhua, March 3, 2016 Adjust font size:

Iran's Foreign Ministry condemned a recent statement of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) enlisting Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah as terrorist group, official IRNA news agency reported on Thursday.

The Lebanese Hezbollah movement is a symbol of resistance against Israeli occupation and its racism in the region and the world and has praised the movement's fight against terrorist groups in the region, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari said on Thursday.

The GCC on Wednesday declared the Hezbollah a terrorist organization.

In a statement, GCC Secretary-General Abdullatif bin Rashid Al- Zayani said "The GCC states consider Hezbollah militias' practices in the Council's states and their terrorist and subversive acts being carried out in Syria, Yemen and Iraq contradict moral and humanitarian values and principles and the international law and pose a threat to Arab national security," according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

Jaber Ansari said that the move is against the interests of Islamic countries and serves the interests of Israel, which is unjustifiable. Endit