Hezbollah urges Lebanon authorities to mend ties with Iran
Hezbollah on Tuesday urged Lebanese authorities to mend their relationship with the group's backer Iran and benefit from Tehran's support, days after Iran struck Israel in response to bombardment on south Beirut.
Last week Lebanon's president and prime minister issued pointed calls for Tehran to stop interfering in their country's affairs, after Hezbollah rejected a conditional ceasefire with Israel.
"We call on the Lebanese authorities to seize the opportunity available and correct their official relationship with the Islamic republic in a way that serves the interest of both states," a Hezbollah statement said.
Hezbollah drew Lebanon into the Middle East war on March 2 with rocket fire at Israel to avenge the killing of Iran's supreme leader in U.S.-Israeli strikes.
Iran insists a halt to the wider Middle East conflict must include a ceasefire in Lebanon.
Iran launched missiles at Israel on Sunday in response to Israel bombing Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold.
Iran warned it would resume attacks on Israel if the latter kept striking Lebanon.
Iran and Israel, which fired back, on Monday halted the fresh hostilities.
Hezbollah said Iran's attack on Israel "in defense of our Lebanese people is a message of the Islamic republic's commitment, morally, politically and on the ground, towards Lebanon".
It urged Lebanese authorities to "use this Iranian support to achieve our national objectives, particularly in light of the formation of a new regional umbrella that has emerged from the Islamabad negotiations".
Hezbollah rejects recent direct talks between the Israeli and Lebanese authorities, mediated by Washington.
Pakistan has been mediating between the United States and Iran to end the regional conflict.
On Tuesday, the heads of the Pakistani and Lebanese armed forces agreed to boost cooperation as they met in Pakistan.
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Iran fired a dozen missiles, nothing was hit. Intisar?
I guess while Iran enjoys a ceasefire, Lebanon loses more and more land each day on a war that Iran started using hizb 'for Gaza'. And somehow, we should 'reexamine' our relationship with Iran----it should have ended in October 2023 and well before that most likely.
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Aoun should commit to deracializing the Lebanese Constitution (Article 24's set-aside of half of parliamentary seats to "Christians"). That would provide a fulcrum for all future political actions by all parties.
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You are an Anti-Christian evil HezbShyThaoun supporter!!! Get lost you clown.
Disarm first, then the government of the Republic will conduct foreign affairs in the best interests of all Lebanese and all of Lebanon. Until then, Hezbollah IS the foreign interference the President publicly and repeatedly admonished Iranian leaders to stop.