PARIS - A Lebanese minister on Friday called the fighting in Lebanon a proxy for the broader conflict between Iran and the United States. | Just noticed that, did you? |
Speaking to the French language television channel TV5, Lebanon’s Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamade said: “We have the impression that for the last two weeks we have been taking part in the start of an Iran-US conflict, but it’s Lebanon, it’s the Lebanese people, it’s the Lebanese state that will ultimately pay.” He said the “game of massacre” had to stop and attention should be given to assembling “all the ingredients of a ceasefire which would enable Lebanon to stop being the ground on which the big conflicts of the Middle East take place”.
His reference to an Iran-US conflict stems from the support given by Iran to the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon and the position of Israel as a close ally of the United States. |