Ambassador Yechiel Leiter declared at the Lebanon agreement signing ceremony in Washington that Iran and Hezbollah have been removed from the playing field, according to his remarks Friday evening.
Ambassador Yechiel Leiter, Israel's envoy to Washington, stated at the official signing ceremony of the agreement with Lebanon on Friday evening that 'Iran and Hezbollah are out of the game.' The remarks came during the ceremony, which Leiter attended as a senior Israeli representative. The ambassador did not elaborate on specific terms of the deal in his public statement at the event. The signing follows months of diplomatic efforts, against a backdrop of ongoing tensions along the Israel-Lebanon border and reported understandings between the U.S. and Iran. Leiter's characterization of the outcome as removing Iran and Hezbollah from the equation marks the ambassador's most optimistic assessment to date, contrasting with his earlier warnings to The Zioneer that the U.S. approach risked emboldening Hezbollah. The full text of the agreement has not been released, and no immediate comment was available from Hezbollah or Iranian officials.
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