Those awaiting Hezbollah’s reaction to the accusation that two members of its military wing were responsible for the Bulgaria bombing will have to wait until Feb. 16, as confirmed by circles close to the party in Beirut. In the meantime, those circles had a lot of dangerous things to say about the charges and their background. Below is part of what they said.

In few but decisive words, the circles close to Hezbollah categorically denied the charges that the party was involved in the bombing at Burgas, Bulgaria, on July 18, 2012. They said that if the party has anything more to say, it will be said by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Feb. 16, because, first, discussing such a sensitive issue is reserved to Hezbollah’s top official, and second because the occasion in which he will give his speech holds great meaning to the issue at hand.

On Feb. 16, Nasrallah will give a public speech in Beirut on the occasion of the assassination of three of the party’s leaders: Sheikh Ragheb Harb, whom the Israelis assassinated in his village of Jebchit in southern Lebanon on Feb. 16, 1984, when the Israeli army occupied the area; former Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Abbas al-Musawi, who was killed by an Israeli air strike on the same day and place, but in 1992, as he was participating in the eighth anniversary of Harb’s assassination; and Hezbollah military official Imad Mughniyeh, who was assassinated in Damascus by an explosion in his car on Feb. 13, 2008.

It is very important for Nasrallah to speak about the indictment on Feb. 16 in order to place the issue in the context of Hezbollah’s persecution and encirclement. According to the Hezbollah circles, the party sees the Bulgarian indictment from two critical angles.