Lebanon's President has praised Hezbollah for defending the country's sovereignty, saying labeling the group as terrorist is unacceptable. "Whoever defends his land and liberates it from occupation cannot be termed terrorist. I cannot accept this in any case," President Michel Suleiman said in an interview with France's Magazine L'Express.
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Earlier this month, the British government put the resistance group on its list of terrorist organizations, accusing Hezbollah of supporting terrorist groups in the region.
Suleiman said Hezbollah is a Lebanese political party and the national resistance is one of its wings. Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah earlier condemned the move by Britain, saying "It was a natural decision coming from a country which created the Zionist entity". |