The Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, accused the United States of preventing the arrival of dollars in Lebanon, calling for heading to Iran and other countries to solve the economic crisis that sparked the protests again.
Nasrallah said - in a televised speech on Tuesday - that the issue of the dollar is an American conspiracy against Lebanon, its people, its state and its economy.
He added that there is peremptory information that the Americans prevent the transfer of the necessary quantities of the dollar to Lebanon, and that they are also exerting pressure on the Bank of Lebanon not to pump the dollar into the Lebanese market, "claiming that Hezbollah is collecting this currency and sending it to Syria."
He said, "We are the ones who bring the dollar to Lebanon, and we are not the ones who collect it."
Nasrallah called on the security services to investigate the authorities that collected the dollar and took it out of the country, saying that one of the banks bought tens of millions of dollars and removed them, and it is protected from political forces.
He added that reports talked about banks taking out $ 20 billion in 2019 from Lebanon abroad and they are present according to official statements and records, and these funds were not released by Hezbollah and did not go to Syria or Iran, as he put it.
Nasrallah continued, "For those who bet on starving or leaving the country hungry, this will not happen ... And whoever puts us between the option of killing with weapons or hunger, our weapons will remain in our hands, and we will kill him."
Nasrallah called for "opening up to other countries to secure Lebanon's needs without the need for hard currency." He gave an example of this, which Iran can sell the country with fuel or electricity by adopting the local currency.
He also said that Chinese companies are ready to implement various projects in Lebanon.
Nasrallah described the new US sanctions in the name of the "Caesar Law" that will enter into force this month against Syria as "the last American weapon", and said that "Syria's allies who stood with it politically and militarily will not abandon them in the face of the economic war and will not allow them to fall." .
In his speech, he warned that the US law "harms Lebanon" on the grounds that "Syria is Lebanon's only land port towards the world."
The positions of the Secretary-General of Hezbollah came hours after the US ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Kraft, announced in the Security Council that her country would take (today) Wednesday "decisive measures to prevent the Assad regime from obtaining a military victory."