BEIRUT (AFP) — Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday denied an Iraqi website report that he had been poisoned and then saved by Iranian doctors, calling it “psychological warfire” against his group.
“This information is totally unfounded,” the head of Lebanon’s powerful Shiite militant group said in an interview broadcast on Hezbollah’s Manar television.
“I am sitting here in front of you… There was no poisoning. It is pure fabrication,” he said.
Nasrallah said the report could have been “part of the psychological war” against Hezbollah aimed at alleging that there are internal divisions within the Syria- and Iran-backed group.
On Wednesday, the Iraqi Internet website Almalaf reported that Nasrallah had survived an assassination bid in which he was poisoned with a “highly toxic chemical substance”.
Nasrallah, 48, was in “critical condition over the past few days,” Almalaf said, quoting diplomatic sources in Beirut. It said his life was saved by Iranian doctors who rushed to his side.
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