The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has denounced the United States over blocking efforts to establish a new government in the West Asian country.
According to Press TV, Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc said in a statement on Thursday that US President Donald Trump’s administration “is the one responsible for obstructing the efforts to form the government.”
The Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc, however, said it still saw the chance to agree on a cabinet, saying, it “still sees the opportunity available to renew that, which was wrecked by those who [are] handling, in the shadows, the operation of forming the new government.”
The United States on September 8 imposed illegal sanctions on two former cabinet ministers in Lebanon over support for Hezbollah as it is trying to isolate the resistance movement amid the country's political turmoil.
“We categorically refuse that anyone on our behalf names ministers that represent us in the government,” Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc pointed out.
Efforts to form a new government in Lebanon have hit an impasse with Parliament Speaker and Amal Movement leader Nabih Berri insisting that the Finance Ministry, along with Defense, Interior and Foreign ministries, must be excluded from the proposed shake-up of the leadership.
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