BEIRUT: A senior Hezbollah official indirectly accused March 14 parties Sunday of trying to bring Lebanon back to the “era of defeat.”

Responding to politicians in the March 14 coalition who have called on Hezbollah to surrender its arms to the Lebanese Army, Hashem Safieddine, head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, told a rally in the southern village of Tayr Felsay: “The attempt by some through some proposals is to bring Lebanon back to the era of reactionary, backwardness and defeat.

We are today facing a political battle.” “It is not a matter of an electoral law, or who wins a majority [in Parliament].

Rather, there is a party in Lebanon, under various slogans and instructions from abroad, which wants to bring our country back to the era of defeat at the political level at a time when the resistance had ushered it into the era of victories and power in the face of the Israeli enemy,” he added.