Netanyahu: Hezbollah 'blatantly lying' to the world in fraudulent propaganda tour

Netanyahu: Hezbollah 'blatantly lying' to world in 'fraudulent propaganda tour' 

By gowidenews

Report reaching us on Monday, 1 Oct 2018

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at Lebanon on Monday after it refuted his allegations of secret missile and nuclear sites.

On Thursday, Netanyahu in a speech to the UN General Assembly claimed that Hezbollah has underground weapons stores in the Beirut, showing aerial photos taken by the Israeli army as proof of his allegation.

Lebanon's Foreign Minister on Monday gathered ambassadors near Beirut international airport in a bid to disprove Israeli accusations that the Hezbollah movement had secret missile facilities there.

"Today Lebanon is raising (its) voice by addressing all countries of the world... to refute Israel's allegations," Gibran Bassil said.

Netanyahu on Monday hit back at the Lebanese Foreign Minister, calling it “fraudulent propaganda”.

"Hezbollah is brazenly lying to the international community by means of the fraudulent propaganda tour of the Lebanese Foreign Minister who took ambassadors to the soccer field but refrained from taking them to the nearby underground precision missile production facility. The ambassadors should ask themselves why they waited three days before making the tour. Hezbollah always takes care to clean the area at exposed sites,” he said.

“It is unfortunate that the Lebanese government is sacrificing the peace of its citizens to cover for Hezbollah which has taken Lebanon hostage for its aggression against Israel," Netanyahu added.

Netanyahu also lashed out at Iran on Monday, calling Tehran’s allegations that Israel was behind an attack on an army parade in southern part of the country last week which killed at least 29 people and wounded at least 50 more.

"Iran's attempt to tie Israel to the terrorist attack in southern Iran is ridiculous. The fact that 'Death to Israel' was written on the missiles launched at Syria proves everything."

The Israeli Prime Minister was referring to Monday’s announcement from Iran's Revolutionary Guards saying they had launched a missile attack against a "terrorist" headquarters in Syria in retaliation for a the attack on the military parade in the Iranian city of Ahvaz.

"These terrorists...were trained & organized by two...Gulf countries," Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi told IRNA, insinuating that US allies in the region were responsible before adding, "They are not from Daesh or other groups fighting Iran...but they are linked to America & Mossad," directly calling out the Israeli spy agency.

In his speech to the UN General Assembly on Thursday Netanyahu revealed new evidence of a “secret atomic warehouse”, which Iran later refuted.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday dismissed Netanyahu’s allegations, calling it the newest in a long list of “nonsense” claims regarding Iran’s nuclear development beginning in 1992.

“He’s just trying to find a smokescreen,” Zarif said.

“He’s been making allegations about Iran since 1992,” Zarif said. “In 1992, according to him, we were supposed to have finished making a bomb in about five years. In 1996 still five years. So he’s been on the record - even testifying before Congress - that Iran is about to make a nuclear weapon.