A Lebanese Shiite cleric has called for Lebanon to revoke Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s citizenship over his “clear collaboration” and ties to Iran, The Times of Israel reported Monday.

Muhammad Ali Al-Husseini, who previously came out strongly against Iran’s influence in Lebanon and has also sought to spread messages of peace in Hebrew on social media, said in an interview last week about Nasrallah that “This is clear collaboration of a Lebanese with a foreign country.”

Al-Husseini continued: “Therefore, just like the proper action taken by Bahrain, when it revoked the citizenship of Iran’s collaborators, who were involved in tarnishing the image of Bahrain, I call upon the State of Lebanon to revoke citizenship of Hassan Nasrallah.”

The cleric said the terror chief’s citizenship should be revoked for saying Iran’s doctrine of Guardianship of the Jurist — which grants Ayatollah Ali Khamenei supreme political power — is above Lebanon’s constitution. Hezbollah denies that Nasrallah made the comments.

“What the Iranian regime conceals with its [methods] of political dissimulation has been exposed today by Nasrallah through his slips of the tongue,” Al-Husseini said, according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute. “These declarations have harmed the Lebanese state, constitution, and law.”

Hezbollah receives extensive financial and military aid from Iran and the terror group is a key proxy for the Iranian regime in their quest for regional hegemony. In 2016, Nasrallah said, “We are open about the fact that Hezbollah’s budget, its income, its expenses, everything it eats and drinks, its weapons and rockets, come from the Islamic Republic of Iran,” and he emphasized that his group “will not be affected” by any sanctions.

Al-Husseini further noted that Iran is working to undermine Arab countries and seeks to divide the Middle East along sectarian lines.

“What is happening today in our nation – and I have said this in over a thousand interviews and statements – is that Persian Iran is genuinely endeavoring to shatter our Arab nation to smithereens. Iran wants to divide and infiltrate our nation. Iran is lying in wait for our nation,” he stated.

“We started to have a problem in Lebanon when Iran founded Hezbollah, making it and its members guns for hire, fighting here and there in Lebanon, making threats against the UAE, Kuwait, and Yemen, and striking in Saudi Arabia,” Husseini concluded.

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