Lebanon: Hezbollah's Nasrallah accuses US of targeting Islam.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

In Lebanon, Hezbollah Secretary-General His Eminence Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah has stressed that the most dangerous thing that one can face is wagering on the United States, which is backing the Zionist enemy in its crimes.

In a speech to celebrate the first night of the [hijrah] month of Muharram and in commemoration of Ashura [death of Imam Husayn in Karbala, Iraq in early Islam], Nasrallah said that the United States was coming to tighten its grip on the oil and that it represents the biggest threat to Islam, adding that it has started its war on Islam, because the latter poses a threat to its influence.

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