Hezbollah Calls for Week of Lebanon protests

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The leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, has called for a full week of protests in Lebanon. Protests have sparked after the release of controversial video, made by an american film maker that depicted Mohammed in a way that many muslims did not like. Nassrallah called this "the worst attack on Islam ever"

"The whole world needs to see your anger on your faces, in yours fists, and in your shouts" said Nasrallah on a televised speech. He has told his followers to staggers the protests all around there country of Lebanon. Giving them outreach to the whole country. Protests begin in southern Beirut on Monday and moving to different cities across the country throughout the week.

The Us government on thursday then imposed new sanctions on Nasrallah and two other figures in the Shia group due to the support that they have been giving to the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Also the treasury department sanctions add to measures already placed on hezbollah, which in 2001 was named a terrorist group by the US. Also in his speech Nasrallah said, Lebanon should call for an Emergency meeting of the Arab League to discuss formally what they should do about this anti-Islam film. Shortly after his nationwide address ended the foreign ministry of lebanon said that the foreign minister of Lebanon, Adnan Mansour requested a meeting of the sorts to the 22-member bloc.

Kyler Juckins