Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah spoke on Friday about the various international, regional and local developments.
He thus accused the United States of supporting the Lebanese Army by saying publicly that this assistance aims to enter into confrontation with the Shiite movement. This is an incitement from Washington so that the Lebanese divide through the media.
Some in Lebanon itself accuse Hezbollah and Iran of being at the origin of the failure to form a government so far. However, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah indicates that neither the current negotiations between Iran and Saudi Arabia or even less those in Vienna relating to Iranian nuclear power have addressed the Lebanese dossier.
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These accusations of obstructing the formation of a cabinet are baseless. He therefore calls for overcoming the current differences and forming this cabinet to end the current situation.
Refuting the accusations concerning a questioning of the National Pact, questioning which will grant a third to the Shiite community, a third to the Sunni community and a third to the Christian community against 50% today to the Muslim community and 50% to the Christian community.
Hezbollah, he believes, rejects this tripartite distribution before thanking the leader of the CPL, Gébran Bassil for the trust placed in him and describing him as a friend. At no time, he notes, did he think that this appeal from the Free Patriotic Current was intended to create a dispute between Hezbollah and the Amal movement. The initiative of the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Nabih Berri is continuing, however, with an agreement already concerning the distribution of the 24 ministerial portfolios to the different political parties and factions.
On the question of the blocking third party, our position is that we understand the refusal of the parties to have a blocking third party or a third party guarantor, and that is a right; the president is a partner in the formation of the government, and this is a position
Hassan Nasrallah, June 25, 2021
He rejects, however, that this initiative by Nabih Berri aims to set new standards. Hassan Nasrallah thus indicates that he has proposed new ideas that could satisfy both the President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun and the Prime Minister designate Saad Hariri, also stressing that the Presidency of the Republic is a partner in the formation of the cabinet. , at odds with the president of the chamber of deputies Nabih Berri who had estimated that Baabda was not even entitled to any ministry.
In addition, the secretary general of Hezbollah indicated that all administrative and logistical preparations aimed at importing fuel oil and gasoline from Iran have been implemented. All that remains is a request for permission to proceed. « If the state does not manage to cover the fuel shortage, we will resort to Iran », he concludes on this subject.
