BEIRUT, Lebanon: Hezbollah Chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday his group has given up hope of reaching a compromise deal with Lebanon's Western-backed majority coalition to end the country's political crisis.

Nasrallah said Hezbollah would not be dragged into civil war despite the failure of last month's Saudi-backed talks between the majority and the opposition to resolve the five-month-old standoff.

"The dialogue is deadlocked. What do we do?," he said at a Hezbollah ceremony in Beirut's southern suburbs. “We don't want a civil war. If the stalemate continues for a while until a solution is found or we go to a civil war, then let the stalemate continue."

Lebanon is facing its worst crisis since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war. Opposition ministers, including all Shi'ites, resigned from government in November because of Siniora's refusal to give them 11 seats in the 30-member cabinet and effectively hand veto power to his opponents.