Iran’s most sensible diplomat has promised to help Lebanon as the country recovers from its recent explosion and opposes a recent agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, a stopover to commemorate the end of a war between Israel and Lebanon.
Zarif described the agreement, negotiated Thursday with the help of the United States, “as painful and as a stab in the back in Lebanon and countries of the region,” according to a reading of his assembly with his Lebanese counterpart Charbel Wehbe posted Friday through Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“In Beirut today to express the solidarity of other Iranians with all Lebanese and to be offering our willingness to Array Now is the time to and facilitate, not impose and dictate,” Zarif tweeted later. “In the region we are all in the same boat: Lebanon’s security is our security.”
The visit, during which Zarif also met with Lebanese President Michel Aoun, Prime Minister Hassan Diab and Parliament President Nabih Berri, also coincided with the anniversary of a United Nations-mediated ceasefire that ended a month-long war between Israel and Iran-backed Lebanon. . Shia Muslim Movement of Hezbollah. In another statement issued Friday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said, “Resistance to the Zionist enemy will lead to some defeat, and this is a wonderful lesson for all governments and nations in the region.”
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has been today and will be with the other people and the Lebanese government,” he added.
Iran also sent a separate message to Hezbollah, congratulating him on his “proud victory” against Israel, which nevertheless withdrew his forces after a bloody confrontation that killed more than a hundred Israelis and more than a thousand Lebanese. Iran said the war would serve as a reminder that “Lebanon’s security, independence and sovereignty will not be a toy in the hands of enemies” and that it will “overcome the existing crisis with unity and empathy.”
News sites affiliated with Hezbollah have already expressed contempt for the agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, but Hezbollah’s secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, hoped to give an official reaction in a speech later that day, a spokesman for the organization told Newsweek.
The agreement to make the United Arab Emirates the third Arab country to make peace with Israel, after Jordan in 1994 and Egypt in 1979. Abu Dhabi’s crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, said the agreement “reached to wipe out the Israelis annexation. Palestinian Territories “by Israel.
The two men sought to isolate Iran in the foreign community, with the United States achieving a “maximum pressure” crusade of sanctions against the Islamic Republic and Israel by intensifying a crusade of movements opposed to suspicious sites connected to Iran in Syria. The two countries also sought to drive Lebanon and its best friend Hezbollah away, and as Zarif crossed Beirut, a senior U.S. official also met with Lebanese leaders in the capital.
U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale met Friday with Aoun, Berri and former Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri. Hale filed the FBI’s request to help investigate the reasons for the Beirut port explosion that forced the Lebanese closet to resign, and also discussed efforts to resolve a long-standing dispute related to the lebanon-Israel maritime border on the wealthy resource. -East of the Mediterranean.
The Lebanese armed forces reported Friday that Israeli gunboats “launched bursts of fire from the occupied waters into Lebanese territorial waters” a day earlier, and that Israeli spy planes had violated Lebanese airspace by flying over the southern towns of Aitaroun and Yaroun on Thursday. Okay.
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