Red line crossed: Lebanon slams Iran envoy hurt in pager attack over Hezbollah ties

Red line crossed: Lebanon slams Iran envoy hurt in pager attack over Hezbollah ties

Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji summoned Iranian Ambassador Mojtaba Amani, who was injured in the Israeli pager attack, after he made controversial remarks on Hezbollah disarmament; President Joseph Aoun insists weapons belong under state control, while Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem vows to resist disarmament, escalating political tensions in Lebanon

Trump’s Middle East Peace Envoy Reaffirms Assertive Position On Hezbollah Crackdowns

At the end of her three-day visit to Beirut last week, U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus stated in an interview with Lebanon News L.B.C.I. that Hezbollah and other armed groups should be disarmed “as soon as possible,” calling for greater efforts by the Lebanese Armed Forces (L.A.F.). After meetings with various Lebanese officials on the reconstruction of the national economy and Hezbollah’s disarmament, Ortagus expressed her encouragement to L.B.C.I. a…

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lebanon, on Tuesday, summoned the Iranian Ambassador in Lebanon to visit Amani against the background of what was on his page on the X platform on the subject of the exclusiveness of arms. Ambassador Mijab Amani wrote on the Axe, the Al-Seem Project