BEIRUT — The Future Movement, led by former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, issued a statement on Friday saying it has “had enough of Hezbollah’s arbitrary politics,” and condemning the party for showing support for Information Minister George Kurdahi’s comments on the Saudi intervention in Yemen.

Here’s what we know:

    • The statement followed social media responses to another statement released yesterday concerning the same issue. Friday's press release claimed that Hezbollah violated a truce with the Future Movement through its “excessive interference in the internal affairs of Arab nations in line with Iran’s political goals.” Hezbollah’s intervention was further described as “endangering coexistence” through its encouragement of smear campaigns against Saudi Arabia.

    • On Thursday Hezbollah had described Kurdahi’s comments as representing a “brave and honorable stance” and considered the Saudi ambassador’s call to remove Kurdahi as information minister as “an attack on Lebanon’s sovereignty.”

    • The Future Movement responded with a statement on Thursday noting that Hezbollah “deviates from national interest” and insists on “placing Lebanon in a hostile position.”

    • Thursday’s statement said “Hezbollah gives itself rights in the cabinet to suspend meetings, and threatens with 100,000 fighters to serve the Iranian agenda. The worst of Hezbollah’s statements is that it uses Lebanon's sovereignty as material” to incite hatred on the Gulf countries.

    • In a televised interview broadcast by Al Jazeera, Kurdahi was asked to comment on the war in Yemen, particularly Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates’ intervention in combating Shiite Houthi rebels, who are backed by Tehran. The minister's stance was that Houthis “defend themselves without attacking anyone.” He added that the conflict in Yemen is “absurd.”

    • The interview was filmed in early August, a month before Najib Mikati’s cabinet was formed. Kurdahi's remarks, which were aired this week, sparked an uproar among Saudi officials. Lebanese leaders have since condemned these comments, assuring that they are not representative of the government's policies.

    • Diplomatic ties between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia have deteriorated over the past seven months, particularly since more than 5 million captagon pills were found hidden in a shipment of pomegranates from Lebanon and a ban was imposed on Lebanese exports last April as a consequence. Then in May, Saudi Arabia’s reaction to comments by then caretaker Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbi about alleged ties between Gulf country and the jihadist groups in the Syria, Iraq and Lebanon forced his resignation.