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Iran Basij force condemns EU for blacklisting Lebanon's Hezbollah

Iran Press TV

Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:18PM GMT

Iran's Basij force has condemned the European Union's recent decision to blacklist the military wing of Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, Iran's Basij said the decision by the EU once again exposed its submissiveness to pressure from the United States and "the criminal network of international Zionism."

On June 22, the 28-nation bloc unanimously decided to put Hezbollah's military wing on the EU blacklist. The Lebanese movement rejected the move as "aggressive" and "unjust."

The Basij statement noted that the US, Britain and some European states have falsely accused Hezbollah of having links to last year's bombing in Bulgaria in an attempt to lay the ground for "this sinister plot."

The Bulgaria bombing took place in July 2012 in the Black Sea resort of Burgas, leaving seven people dead, including five Israeli tourists. The Israeli regime immediately accused Hezbollah of carrying out the attack, a charge the resistance group flatly denied as part of Tel Aviv's plots against it.

Elsewhere in its statement, the Basij force said it is obvious that the Lebanese movement's support for the oppressed Syrian nation has been the main reason behind the EU move.

Hezbollah members have been fighting alongside Syrian troops against foreign-backed Takfiri militants in Syria, defeating the extremist terrorist groups in different areas, including in the strategic town of Qusayr which was recaptured by the Syrian army on June 5.

Also in its statement, Iran's Basij said the EU decision once again verified the West's "double-standard and inhumane" approach to the concept of terrorism.

Instead of condemning Israel-backed terrorists and Salafi assassins in Syria or the mass killing of Muslims in Myanmar, the European Union has targeted the supporters of freedom and human dignity, the statement added.

EU's decision against Hezbollah comes just over two months after its foreign ministers reached an agreement to lift an arms embargo on the terrorist groups fighting against the Syrian government.

MKA/SS/HMV