NNA – Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper wrote: There were many political messages launched by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian from Beirut, on his third visit to Lebanon since the Hamas movement invaded the Israeli settlements located within the Gaza Strip, on the seventh of last October. He intended to inform his allies in Lebanon that Tehran is involved in international and Arab efforts aimed at finding a solution that begins with stopping the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, even though the decision to stop it was and still is in the hands of the United States of America, warning, at the same time, Tel Aviv of its tendency towards an invasion. Rafah because of its military and political repercussions that would threaten stability in the region.
Multiple messages
The Iranian Foreign Minister, although he was not looking to expand the scope of the war and extend it towards southern Lebanon, his talks in Beirut included Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, caretaker government Najib Mikati, Foreign Minister Abdullah Bouhabib, and Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. And the leaders of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements in Lebanon.
The talks continued, as a prominent parliamentary source told Asharq Al-Awsat, under the umbrella of the necessity of giving a chance to pass the settlement on the basis of stopping the Israeli aggression on Gaza, revealing at the same time, and quoting Abdullahian, that the correspondence between Tehran and Washington did not stop, but rather its pace increased. To prevent the expansion of the war, stressing that the Sultanate of Oman is sponsoring it, and that the Swiss ambassador to Iran and officials from the State of Qatar participate in it from time to time.
Perhaps the multiple messages sent by Abdullahian, even if they were met with a military escalation by Tel Aviv, crossed red lines in their targeting of Hamas’ recruitment official in the West Bank, Basil al-Saleh, in the town of Jadra, without being able to assassinate him, knowing that this town is far from The area south of the Litani is about 37 kilometers and 25 kilometers from Beirut.
Luring Hezbollah
Asharq Al-Awsat learned from sources in the “Shiite duo” (Hezbollah and the Amal Movement) that Tel Aviv took the decision to cross the red lines in its targeting of areas that do not fall within the southern Litani region, in an attempt to lure “Hezbollah” towards expanding the war. . This is what Abdullahian pointed out in his meetings with Nasrallah and the Palestinian leaders, calling for restraint to prevent the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from having the opportunity, who insists on escalation in the south to pass a message to the countries that are pressuring him to prevent him from expanding the war along the northern front.
The sources in the “Shiite duo” pointed out that the war team in Israel wanted to inform the international community that it would not yield to pressure unless it provided the required guarantees to survive, in the political sense of the word. She said that targeting Jadra, located on the administrative borders of Beirut, is not only related to an attempt to assassinate a Hamas official, but rather it goes beyond expanding the war to the south.
New strategy
It was revealed that officials in the joint operations room of the “Axis of Resistance” began, under Nasrallah’s supervision, to search for preparing a new strategy to put an end to Israel’s crossing of the red lines, provided that it remains under control, although they fear that it will turn the area south of the Litani into a buffer zone like this. In the area located in the north of occupied Palestine, which allows it to involve the south in an uncalculated military adventure. She said that the strategy on the agenda of the axis of resistance was surprised by Tel Aviv’s initiative to violate the rules of engagement in depth, and she was betting, from the point of view of the axis of resistance, that reaching a long-term truce in Gaza would extend to southern Lebanon.
The same sources quoted Abdullahian as saying that Tel Aviv will not be able to control Gaza, and that “Hamas” and “Islamic Jihad” and the Palestinian factions have the ability to withstand the Israeli aggression for many months, because they collectively do not lack weapons and ammunition of all kinds, and they were They have secured more reserves through the factories they established to manufacture rockets and missiles, and they have enough self-sufficiency that does not allow Israel to close in on Gaza.
Impedance coherence
She stressed that Abdullahian’s visit aims primarily to tighten the situation and fortify it, and that his meetings that came from outside his informal agenda come in the context of sending a message to Tel Aviv, and to those concerned, that the axis of resistance remains intact, and that Tehran will not abandon it and will have the final say. If the region is moving towards finding a settlement. She considered that his meeting with Nasrallah was normal, even though the latter was in almost daily contact with the decision-making center in Tehran.
However, the political messages launched by Abdullahian were not limited to the regional aspect in terms of declaring a state of political and military alert to restrain Netanyahu and deny him the opportunity to expand the war to the south, despite the international and regional warnings received by Lebanon not to be drawn into the court of the war team led by the Israeli extreme right to lure Hezbollah. » To enter into a war, which will not be limited to the south, but will expand to other regions, and this is what he wanted by targeting the mountainous town of Jadra. Rather, Abdullahian wanted to address in it a number of the most prominent issues on the Lebanese scene that are still unresolved, lacking solutions and constituting a controversial subject. The most prominent of which is removing the election of the President of the Republic from the deadlock.
President elections
Asharq Al-Awsat learned from high-ranking official sources that Abdullahian touched on the election of the president and called for his Lebanonization, provided that his election would be a point of consensus between the parliamentary blocs, free from any external interference.
In other words, Abdullahian wanted to return the election of the president to the embrace of the Lebanese, and that Tehran supports what they agree upon, indicating that Tehran is entrusting its affairs in this regard to the axis of resistance and through it to the “Shiite duo.”
She confirmed that the Iranian Foreign Minister considered the necessity of electing the president from the perspective, as the same sources say, that Iran is keen on stability in Lebanon, and the necessity of concerted efforts to maintain the calm as a condition for confronting Israeli ambitions in light of its continued occupation of parts of southern Lebanon.
But the official authorities expressed their concern about Abdullahian’s call for Lebanon to elect the president on the back of his statement, unequivocally, that the “five-party” committee, which includes representatives of the United States, France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Qatar, is divided among itself, and that it is better to leave his election to the Lebanese parliament. Perhaps he will agree on a candidate who will be a translation of the convergence of the parliamentary blocs around a specific name.
The official authorities considered that Abdullahian’s linking the election of the president to a Lebanese-Lebanese consensus was merely a prelude that would push the countries concerned with his election to turn to Tehran for assistance, and that his mere mention of the division within the “quintet” meant a ruling, from the opposition’s point of view, that it insisted on reserving a seat for it by attaching it to the “The Quintet,” even if indirectly.
Lebanon’s security is the security of Iran
However, concerned official bodies, as Asharq Al-Awsat learned, were not comfortable with what Abdullahian announced from Rafik Hariri International Airport, immediately upon his arrival in Beirut, that Lebanon’s security is the security of Iran, especially since he repeated his position in some meetings, whether official or political. , without elaborating on what he meant by what he said.
Even if it avoided expressing its position publicly, it was not comfortable linking Lebanese security to Iranian security, considering that such a link would be a subject of concern that extends beyond the inside to the outside and raises suspicion in the international community, for fear that what he announced would be a prelude to attaching Lebanon to the axis of resistance, unless… By announcing his position, he intended to detonate a sound bomb that would have no security effects.
Finally, it should be noted that Abdullahian called for the implementation of International Resolution 1701 as the sole regulator for defining the Lebanese-Israeli borders, without going into details.
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2024-02-12 04:57:38
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