{"id":115862,"date":"2024-10-19T07:20:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T00:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115862"},"modified":"2024-10-19T07:20:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T00:20:45","slug":"lebanon-issues-rare-criticism-of-iran-over-blatant-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115862","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon Issues Rare Criticism of Iran Over \u2018Blatant Interference\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Lebanon\u2019s caretaker prime minister accused Iran on Friday of meddling in the country\u2019s affairs, opening up a rare diplomatic spat after Iran\u2019s parliament speaker remarked that his country was ready to help negotiate terms to bring about a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The reported remarks amounted to \u201ca blatant interference in Lebanese affairs,\u201d said the prime minister, Najib Mikati, who later summoned Tehran\u2019s envoy to answer for them \u2014 a highly unusual rebuke by a top Lebanese official given the stranglehold that Iran-backed Hezbollah has on the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an interview published by France\u2019s Le Figaro newspaper a day earlier, the Iranian parliament speaker, Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, was quoted as saying that his government was ready to negotiate with France on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1701, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/11\/us\/politics\/us-diplomacy-israel-lebanon.html\" title=\"\">a U.N. agreement that ended the last war<\/a> between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006 and is seen as a precondition for a cease-fire in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe issue of negotiating to implement international resolution 1701 is being undertaken by the Lebanese state,\u201d Mr. Mikati said in response, referring to the U.N. agreement. \u201cEveryone is required to support it in this direction, not to seek to impose new mandates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The 2006 agreement called for a withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon and said that only the Lebanese army and U.N. peacekeepers could operate militarily in southern Lebanon. It has widely been considered <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/11\/world\/middleeast\/lebanon-prime-minister-un-resolution-cease-fire.html\" title=\"\">ineffective<\/a> but has come into focus again during the current conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since the Hamas-led attack into Israel last year, Israel has been exchanging cross-border fire with Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group and political party. The conflict has escalated sharply in recent weeks, leading Israel to invade southern Lebanon in a bid to destroy the group\u2019s border infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Although Mr. Ghalibaf\u2019s chief adviser, Mahdi Mohammadi, later denied the remarks, it was too late to defuse the diplomatic tensions and Tehran\u2019s envoy in Beirut was summoned to offer clarification. Lebanese officials stressed during the meeting that the country needed to preserve its sovereignty as it pursued a diplomatic solution to the conflict, according to a statement by Lebanon\u2019s foreign ministry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Mikati has repeatedly affirmed his government\u2019s commitment to the full implementation of the U.N. agreement in an attempt to bring an end to the violence in Lebanon that has killed thousands and displaced over one million. However, Lebanon\u2019s crisis-racked caretaker government is deemed largely powerless to rein in Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/18\/world\/middleeast\/lebanon-iran-interference.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon\u2019s caretaker prime minister accused Iran on Friday of meddling in the country\u2019s affairs, opening up a rare diplomatic spat after Iran\u2019s parliament speaker remarked that his country was ready &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115862\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}