Hezbollah officials are lashing out against the European Union after extensive evidence of terror activities on the Continent – some sufficient to secure criminal convictions – led the bloc to blacklist the Iran-backed group as a terror organization earlier this week.

In response Hezbollah international relations official Ammar Moussawi threatened the E.U. yesterday with unpredictable “repercussions”:

Hezbollah said Thursday that the European Union decision to blacklist the party’s military wing would have repercussions, adding that Europe cannot reasonably expect to engage in dialogue with the party after condemning it. “Certainly … the decision will have repercussions; it will not pass by easily. I won’t predict [what these repercussions will be], this has to do with our leadership,” said Ammar Musawi, Hezbollah’s official in charge of international relations.

A columnist writing for the pro-Hezbollah Al-Akhbar newsletter was even more blunt:

In the end, Hezbollah will not be the only one to pay the price. Europe’s declaration of war on the Resistance means that the presence of their troops on Lebanese territory is not welcome anymore. From now on, Europe must realize that its soldiers serving under the UN flag in southern Lebanon are operating behind enemy lines.

Fears that Hezbollah would target E.U. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon had been a key component in the initial reluctance of some E.U. countries to make moves against the group. Hezbollah politicians had all but openly stated in the lead-up to the E.U. decision that those troops would be put in danger. Analysts suggested at the time that the spectacle of Hezbollah’s “political wing” threatening violence on behalf of its “military wing” called into question the E.U.’s attempts to distinguish between the two.

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