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Iran will support any decision taken by the Lebanese government and Hezbollah on a ceasefire with Israel, Ali Larijani, senior advisor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, said on November 15.
“We are not looking to sabotage anything. We are after a solution to the problems,” Larijani said after meeting Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and parliament speaker Nabih Berri, according to Reuters.
Referring to Hezbollah, Larijani stressed that Iran will continue to support the “resistance” in Lebanon under all circumstances.
A day earlier, Reuters reported that the United States ambassador to Lebanon had submitted a draft for a proposed ceasefire in Lebanon to Berri.
Ambassador Lisa Johnson met with Berri, a close ally of Hezbollah, on November 14 to submit Washington’s first written proposal in at least several weeks, two senior Lebanese political sources told the news agency.
“It is a draft to get observations from the Lebanese side,” one of the sources told Reuters. Neither source could provide details on the contents of the proposal.
A separate report by The Wall Street Journal released on the same day said that the U.S. President-elect Donald Trump signed off on the proposal on November 10 during a meeting with Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump green-lit the proposal following a briefing from Dermer, and expressed hope that it would be implemented before he takes office on January 20, according to the report.
The confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah first broke out after the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, with the group launching attacks in support of the Palestinian enclave.
Israel escalated its attacks on Lebanon starting from September 17 and on September 27 it assassinated the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nassrallah. On September 30, Israel complexacted the situation even more by launching a ground operation in southern Lebanon.
So far, the confrontation has claimed the lives of more than 110 people in Israel and left well over 3,300 dead on the Lebanese side.
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okay, but i’ll repeat what the problem is. lebanon is deeply divided. hezbollah (backed by iran) took power and “officially” won the election, but in reality it’s not that clear. the shiites support hezbollah, but all other lebanese consider it an illegal and pro-iranian armed militant group. let’s leave aside the question of whether hezbollah is legal or illegal, but they have better weapons than the lebanese army and no one in lebanon can disarm hezbollah.
the conclusion is as follows. any political solution to the crisis in lebanon is dead on arrival. iran is blatantly lying. they may say “iran will respect any ceasefire”, but the real true meaning is “iran will reject any ceasefire”. in fact, all the weapons, and especially the missiles that hezbollah uses against israel, are made in iran. israel is, of course, cunning enough to skillfully exploit it and draw the us into the conflict on their side against iran.