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Beastly Boy

(11,137 posts)
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 07:34 AM Oct 18

Lebanese PM says he rejects Iranian interference in a Lebanese matter

Lebanon's caretaker prime minister on Friday made a rare rebuke to Iran and said Tehran's envoy should be summoned over reported comments by a senior Iranian official that it would be ready to help "negotiate" to implement a UN resolution on Lebanon. Lebanese PM Najib Mikati said in a statement the comments amounted to "a blatant interference in Lebanese affairs."

Criticism of Iran by top Lebanese officials is unusual, particularly given Tehran's sponsorship of Hezbollah, which is currently locked in battles against Israeli troops along Lebanon's southern border.

In an interview published in France's Le Figaro on Thursday, Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf was quoted as saying his country would be ready to "negotiate" with France to implement United Nations Resolution 1701.That resolution, which ended the last round of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006, calls for southern Lebanon to be free of any troops or weapons other than those of the Lebanese state.

He said such a negotiation was the prerogative of the Lebanese state and asked Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib to summon Iran's Chargé d'Affaires in Beirut.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-825106
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Lebanese PM says he rejects Iranian interference in a Lebanese matter (Original Post) Beastly Boy Oct 18 OP
Wasted breath. Lebanon is a failed state and Iran, Israel and others all can meddle at will as the Lebanese people.... dutch777 Oct 18 #1
The content of the statement is indeed inconsequential. It is the fact that Lebanon's PM Beastly Boy Oct 18 #2

dutch777

(3,465 posts)
1. Wasted breath. Lebanon is a failed state and Iran, Israel and others all can meddle at will as the Lebanese people....
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 07:48 AM
Oct 18

...are so divided and by default allow it. Until the people of Lebanon rise up with one voice that is not Druze, Shia, Sunni first but rather united as Lebanese, they will just continue to be proxies floating on political and economic tides of which they have no control.

Beastly Boy

(11,137 posts)
2. The content of the statement is indeed inconsequential. It is the fact that Lebanon's PM
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 07:55 AM
Oct 18

made such statement at all which is significant.

I don't recall a Lebanese official rebuke Iran in such strong terms before Israel took major steps to degrade Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy.

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