The Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, announced on Saturday that the United States had offered the party a deal, including money and power, but he rejected it.
Nasrallah said - in a speech during the Ashura Council - that the Americans offered us money, power, and a development of the political system in our favor, in exchange for abandoning our cause, "and we did not and will not do."
Nasrallah had previously announced on more than one occasion that the administration of US President Donald Trump sought to open channels of communication with the party, but he did not previously disclose the nature of what Washington offered or the group’s stance towards it.
In his speech, Nasrallah indicated that there are countries that use electronic armies badly and are trying to impose public opinion on Lebanon, and that there are foreign and Gulf embassies that pay tens of millions of dollars to the media to target Hezbollah through news and lies.
Accusations of the party
Regional and Western countries accuse the current Lebanese government of submitting to Hezbollah’s control. Therefore, these countries refrained from providing financial aid to Lebanon, which has been suffering for months from the worst economic crisis in its modern history.
Meanwhile, Lebanon's relations with many countries worsened, in light of Hezbollah's intervention in regional wars due to its loyalty to Iran.
These countries accuse Iran of having an expansionist agenda in the region, and of interfering in the affairs of Arab countries, including Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iraq, which Tehran denies.
Lebanese people reject Tehran's use of Hezbollah in foreign files, including the war in Syria, and call for the party's commitment to the Lebanese state's policy of distancing itself from regional conflicts.