The leader of Hezbollah Naim Kassem called on the Lebanese government to revoke its decision to ban the military activities of this Iran-supported movement," notified the AFP agency today.
Kassem, who replaced Hezbollah's long-standing leader Hassan Nasrallah, killed by Israel in September 2024, stated in a national tv speech that all negotiations with Israel “under fire” were “capitulation”.
He besides assured that Hezbollah fighters were ready to act “without any restrictions”.
The government in Beirut banned Hezbollah's armed action erstwhile the organization joined Iran's attacks on Israel in early March. However, it is incapable to disarm it, as it committed itself to during negotiations with the US and as Israel demands.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of abroad Affairs of Lebanon reported that the accreditation of the Ambassador of Iran has been revoked and that it is to leave the country.
Hezbollah condemned in a message the expulsion of an Iranian diplomat. He called it “national and strategical sin”. Iran-funded organization demanded that the Lebanese MFA immediately retreat from this decision," reported Naharnet portal.
Ici Beyrouth's portal stressed that Iran utilized Hezbollah's financed territory as a theatre of war activities.
Iranian "The Guardians of the Revolution never supported Lebanon; they started war on his behalf, on his land, his blood," commented the portal. "The 9 in 10 Lebanese did not want this war. They did not want to be utilized as surviving shields for doctrine exported from Tehran, they did not want their children to die for interests that were not their own," he added.
APW, PAP
