BEIRUT, March 8 (Xinhua) -- A Hezbollah official for international affairs Nawaf Moussawi on Friday accused the United States of declaring war on the Lebanese opposition, vowing to defeat any aggression, state-run National News Agency reported on Saturday.

    "The U.S. declares an unveiled war on the opposition which represents the majority of the Lebanese people," Moussawi said, stressing that the opposition is capable of confronting any aggression "whether it is political or non political."

    "The opposition has managed to stop Israel military aggression, and prevented American hegemony," he added, pointing to the July2006 war when Israel, backed with the U.S., launched 33 days of air and land military operation against Lebanon in retaliation to Hezbollah kidnapping of two Israel soldiers from Israeli boarders with Lebanon.

    "The American hegemony is cracking," he said, and this is why the U.S. sent navy vessels off the Lebanese coast. Hezbollah is considered a main group in the Lebanese opposition, and is accused by the U.S. and its allies to be the primary ally of Iran and Syria in the region.