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Lebanon’s prime minister this Friday condemned Iran’s “flagrant interference” and demanded the summons of Iranian officials in Beirut, following comments by an Iranian official who said he was ready to negotiate a ceasefire in Lebanon.
This is This is the first time that Najib MikhadiIt maintains good relations with Hezbollah (pro-Iranian) represented in its cabinet, Accepts this positionTehran has already denied meddling in Lebanon’s internal affairs.
After a year of fighting along the border, Israel and the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah are now engaged in open war in Lebanon, where Tel Aviv has launched a ground offensive in recent weeks in the south.
In an article published by the French newspaper Le Figaro on Thursday night, the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad-Bagar Ghalibaf, visited Beirut last week. Tehran is ready to negotiate a ceasefire with France In Lebanon.
“We are surprised by this stance Blatant interference in Lebanese affairs and the attempt to establish a protectorate over Lebanon which we reject”, the Lebanese Prime Minister said in a statement.
Mikati indicated that he had asked the Lebanese foreign minister to “summon Iranian officials” in Lebanon to ask for “explanations” regarding these comments.
Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was injured in a bomb blast in mid-September. Pageras well as hundreds of members of Hezbollah, a move attributed to Israel.
In this sense, the Presidency of the Lebanese Council of Ministers published a statement on the official X account, in which it announced Mikadi’s request to address the statements of the Caliphate with the Iranian official.
In the memo, the Lebanese diplomatic chief was asked to inform Iranian officials of Lebanon’s position on the issue.
“The Problem of Negotiating the Implementation of International Resolution 1701 [do Conselho de Segurança da ONU] It is considered by the Lebanese state and everyone should support it in this direction, do not try to impose new orders that are rejected by all national and sovereign concepts,” Mikadi said.
A resolution passed in 2006 after the end of the Second Lebanon War states that only the Lebanese Armed Forces can be stationed along the border and that Hezbollah fighters stationed on the border with Israel must withdraw north of the Litani River. It also represents the disarmament of the Shia movement.
On October 12, the president of the Iranian parliament met with Mikati during a visit to Beirut, during which he condemned the “crimes” of Israel, which has carried out serious attacks in Lebanon and ground incursions in the south.
Mikati said Iranian diplomatic chief Abbas Arachi, who had visited Lebanon earlier, also conveyed to Ghalibaf “the need to understand the situation in Lebanon, which is under unprecedented Israeli occupation.”
In Tehran, Iran’s parliament rejected Ghalibaf’s proposal to hold talks with France on implementing a UN Security Council resolution, citing “false” interpretations of the information.
“The position taken by Ghalibaf is very clear. The parliament speaker told the Lebanese prime minister that Iran would support whatever the Lebanese government approves to achieve a sustainable ceasefire.
Even so, the chamber pointed out that no agreement would be reached without the support of the so-called “opposition axis”.
The “Axis of Resistance” is an anti-Israel coalition led by Iran and made up of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the Palestinians of Hamas and Yemen’s Houthis, among others.
The Lebanese prime minister stressed that his government is “working with all of Lebanon’s friends, including France, to press Israel for a ceasefire.”
At least 1,418 people have been killed in Lebanon and more than a million forced to flee their homes since Israeli operations intensified on September 23, according to an AFP tally based on official data.
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