BEIRUT: Deputy head of the Hezbollah's executive council Sheikh Nabil Qaouk accused Arab leaders Wednesday of working with the U.S. in an attempt to topple President Bashar Assad’s government.

“Lebanon and its resistance cannot be [associated with] Arabs who are U.S. agents involved in the aggression against Syria,” Qaouk said during a ceremony in Beirut’s southern suburb of Ouzai.

“[Lebanon] would never take a position of treachery or conspire against Syria nor punish it politically, financially or economically,” Qaouk added.

The Arab League voted Saturday to suspend Syria’s membership, citing Syria’s failure to implement an initiative by the league to end the eight-month crisis in that country.

The regional organization also said it would impose political and economic sanctions against Damascus.

Lebanon voted against the decision with President Michel Sleiman warning that isolating its neighbor could result in dangerous repercussions.

During his speech Wednesday, Qaouk, who described the Arab League as being dominated by the United States, said the body was failing to play “role of the fair mediator,” and that Syria would overcome conspiracies against it.

Last week, Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah warned that any attack on Syria or Iran would engulf the region, prompting analysts to assume that Hezbollah would join the fight but against the Jewish state by opening the south Lebanon front.

During his speech Wednesday, Qaouk said the allies of the U.S. and Israel in Lebanon and the region were seeking to weaken Syria and Hezbollah.

"The American-Zionist project and its tools in Lebanon and the region is betting on weakening the resistance through the crisis in Syria and work to exhaust and weaken the regime in Syria,” the Hezbollah official said,” Qaouk added.