BEIRUT: Lebanon and Syria have been placed under the tutelage of Iran, Future Movement MP Ahmad Fatfat said Wednesday, expressing fears of being dragged into a new war with Israel after the weekend strike on a Hezbollah convoy in Syria.
“Fears of war between Hezbollah and Israel exist after the party [Hezbollah] showed no concern [to safeguard] the Lebanese interests as it implements an Iranian agenda,” Fatfat said in an interview with Elnashra news site.
He pointed to recent remarks made by Iranian officials who warned of a “harsh” and “heavy handed” response to Israel’s Sunday airstrike that killed six Hezbollah members in addition to an Iranian commander in Syria’s Golan Heights.
Gen. Mohammad Ali Jaafari, commander of the Revolutionary Guard, was quoted as saying by Fars News Agency Tuesday that Iran would respond to the attack with "ruinous thunderbolts."
"These martyrdoms proved the need to stick with jihad and provided another indication about the nearing collapse of the Zionist entity. The Zionists must await ruinous thunderbolts after their crime in Qunaitra," he said.
“The Revolutionary Guard will fight to the end of the Zionist regime ... We will not rest easy until this epitome of vice is totally deleted from the region’s geopolitics,” he added.
These comments “threaten to drag Lebanon into a war [with Israel],” Fatfat argued.
He said signs show that “both Lebanon and Syria are under Iranian tutelage.”
Fatfat also expressed regret that “Hezbollah is prioritizing Iranian interests above Lebanese interests.”
He stressed that the decision over Hezbollah’s arms and its fight in Syria was not up to the resistance group but to Iran. “Recent Iranian comments undoubtedly confirm this.”
The Future Movement lawmaker also accused Hezbollah of having a role in hindering Lebanese presidential election by “implementing Iran’s policy.”
“Otherwise,” Fatfat said, Hezbollah “would have facilitated the election process.”
He said Tehran was putting pressure through Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun in order to keep the presidential election card in its hand to use it in the ongoing nuclear negotiations.
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