Lebanon’s former defense minister: Israel was responsible for the Beirut port explosion
| In a speech, the former Minister of Defense of Lebanon stated that Hezbollah is defending Lebanon by entering the Gaza war, pointed to the inconclusive case of the Beirut port explosion and emphasized that the evidence shows that Israel was responsible for this explosion. |
According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, “Ilyas Elmer”, the former Minister of Defense of Lebanon, during An interview answered questions about various cases in this country, including developments in the south at the level of the current conflict between Hezbollah and the Zionist army. Hezbollah has saved Lebanon many times from dangers and liberated it.
In an interview with Al-Jadeed, he announced that Hezbollah has saved Lebanon from dangers several times, including in dealing with Takfiri terrorists.
In response to A question about whether he thinks it is the right thing to continue supporting Hezbollah in Gaza and the continuation of conflicts in the south of Lebanon, he stated that Hezbollah is not at all warlike and that everything is in the interest of Lebanon and the liberation of our country. brings, just as Hezbollah liberated our occupied lands from the evil of the enemy and regulated the situation of our borders and provided a basis for Lebanon to extract its energy resources such as gas and oil from its territorial waters.
Lebanon’s former defense minister said that the international resolution 1701 was a fair decision to support and protect Lebanon and the southern front from 2006 to Kannon was at peace to some extent because of this resolution. However, there are some considerations regarding the requests for Hizbollah to withdraw to the north of the Litani River, and first of all, we must ask what Hizbullah’s retreat beyond Litani basically means. Do those who make this request mean that the Israeli settlers in the north of occupied Palestine should sit in their own settlements, but the Lebanese people and the Hezbollah forces in the south should retreat to the other side of the Litani River? He said that the achievements that Hezbollah has achieved with the battle in southern Lebanon are many, and the Amal movement and Hezbollah have achieved many benefits in southern Lebanon as well as for the Lebanese people in this region. I am very optimistic about the next stage and we should note that the Amal movement and Hezbollah have offered 350 martyrs to support the southern front.
This former Lebanese official said about relations with Hezbollah officials that There is a good relationship between us, and Mohammad Raad, the head of the Hezbollah faction, is my friend, and there is no wavering in our relationship. Our relations are based on honesty and friendship, and I also have an excellent relationship with most representatives of Hezbollah. The presidential case of Lebanon also announced that Suleiman Franjieh, the head of the al-Morda movement and the candidate supported by Hezbollah, was his preferred candidate for the presidency of Lebanon, and he believes that Lebanon needs a leader, not just a president, and the qualities necessary for a leader in the interim. The first is courage and bravery, that is, the qualities that Suleiman Franjieh has. Western-American to hide the truth of the Beirut explosion Directly in the Beirut explosion case under the pretext of fighting corruption
He added that Lebanon needs a president who can say no to both his allies and opponents in order to properly manage the affairs of the country and Investigations show that Suleiman Franjieh has the power to do this.
However, Elias Enmor also stated about the disaster of the terrible explosion of the port of Beirut in August 2020 that the analysis leads to the fact that the explosion of the port of Beirut through the launch of a The bomb was launched from an airplane and the size of the explosives cannot be estimated.
He emphasized that Israel was the perpetrator of this crime.
According to Tasnim, the Beirut explosion case is like other Lebanese criminal cases. which has been captured by the political work of international interested parties such as America and the West, after 4 years it is still undecided and its truth has not been clarified. Lebanon tried to use the Beirut explosion case to attack the resistance and disarm it, and by making ridiculous accusations, they claimed that Hezbollah was responsible for the Beirut port explosion. The western movement of March 14, led by people like Samir Geagea, head of the Lebanese Forces Party, were the main actors of this show, but after failing to advance their goals, they took the case of the Beirut explosion in another direction, and unfortunately, the Lebanese judicial system also They cooperated.
The direct intervention of foreign and international parties in the investigation of this explosion started from the very beginning, and at the head of them, the United States tried to treat this case as well as the case of the assassination of Prime Minister “Comrade Hariri”. Late Lebanon in February 2005 International; A case whose truth was never revealed after 19 years and ended with the arrest and punishment of people who had no role in this crime.
In a country where even high-level assassinations and bombings went unpunished, many They are worried that the investigation about the explosion will also fail to clarify the truth. Even now, if the Beirut explosion case is fully handed over to the western and international parties, the same scenario of Rafiq Hariri’s assassination case will be repeated and another reality and the perpetrators of another crime will be covered up.
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