Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon’s Hizbollah movement, on Wednesday condemned the British government for placing his group’s armed branch on the UK terror list.

The Hizbollah leader mentioned the role of Great Britain in the founding of Israel and the current deployment of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. “The wrongdoer’s decision is thus a medal of honour to us,” he said in a speech via video link that focused on the details of an impending prisoner exchange with Israel.