Lebanese Christian leaders have publicly stated that Israel is not Lebanon's problem and that Iran is the real threat, arguing that Hezbollah is an Iranian weapon parked inside a sovereign state, according to a single report. The statement adds to growing internal Lebanese criticism of Hezbollah's role as an Iranian proxy.
Lebanon's Christian leaders have gone public with a rare and pointed critique of Hezbollah, saying that Israel is not Lebanon's problem and that Iran is the true threat to the country's sovereignty. According to a single report, the leaders argued that Hezbollah is not a Lebanese security policy but an Iranian weapon parked inside a sovereign state, and that Lebanon cannot be free while Tehran's militia decides when the next war begins.
This frank assessment follows a thread of growing internal Lebanese criticism of Hezbollah's autonomy and its role as an Iranian proxy, as The Zioneer has previously reported — Lebanese government sources told N12 on Tuesday that Hezbollah's weapons remain a core issue for the American side and that the separation between the Lebanon and Iran files has become highly complex. The Christian leaders' statement goes further, framing the issue in stark existential terms: if Washington lets Tehran fold Lebanon into a US-Iran deal, the leaders warned, the message across the Middle East will be that Iran pressured and America conceded.
The statement is attributed only to a single source — The Zioneer's own intelligence desk report — and details on which specific Christian leaders made the remarks, and the setting, are not yet available. The development nonetheless reflects a significant erosion of the political consensus in Lebanon that has long shielded Hezbollah from domestic criticism, and aligns with other signs of tension between Lebanese political factions and the Iran-backed militia.
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