{"id":613857,"date":"2026-06-05T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=613857"},"modified":"2026-06-05T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:50:00","slug":"lebanons-president-blasts-iran-hezbollah-for-using-country-as-bargaining-chip-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=613857","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon’s President Blasts Iran, Hezbollah For Using Country As Bargaining Chip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lebanon’s President Blasts Iran, Hezbollah For Using Country As Bargaining Chip<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lebanon’s president has angrily lashed out at both Hezbollah and Iran – the latter for using the Lebanese nation and people as a bargaining chip in the war<\/strong> and standoff with the United States and Israel.<\/p>\n

President Joseph Aoun told CNN in a rare interview that Tehran is exploiting his war-torn nation<\/strong> and issued a fresh demand that Iran’s leadership and military stop interfering in Lebanese affairs.<\/p>\n

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He stressed to Christiane Amanpour that the Lebanese people are “fed up” with the war<\/strong> – which started years ago on the heels of the Gaza war.<\/p>\n

President Aoun\u00a0at one point addressed Iran directly, saying<\/a> “You are not trying to help us \u2026 the people of Lebanon are paying the price \u2026 for the sake of your own interest” – and added, “our interests \u2026 do not coincide with your interests.”<\/p>\n

Then specifically calling out the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), he said: “It\u2019s not your country, it\u2019s our country<\/strong>.“<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran’s leadership has been insistent on a Hezbollah\/Lebanon-Israel ceasefire being part of any broader peace deal with Washington; however, the Lebanese government has negotiated a separate peace with Israel, and in Washington, which has in reality barely held.<\/p>\n

“They are using Lebanon as a bargaining chip in their negotiation with US,” Aoun told CNN. “It\u2019s unacceptable.”<\/p>\n

He continued, “It was a tough negotiation until we had a major breakthrough.” He optimistically assessed that this could serve as path forward to a “just and lasting peace.”<\/p>\n

Hezbollah, for its part, has been rejecting the deal – also after refusing to take part in negotiations. Hezbollah is denouncing that the US-brokered deal\u00a0does not guarantee an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

On Friday, “The Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee on Friday warned residents of six towns and villages including south Lebanon’s Sarafand, a town on the coastal road between Tyre and Sidon, to immediately evacuate,” according<\/a>\u00a0to CBS.<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udca2 Hezbollah released footage of an FPV drone strike on an Israeli army gathering and a Namer armored personnel carrier on the southern outskirts of Zawtar al-Sharqiyah in southern Lebanon, carried out June 2. The attack involved multiple FPV drones. pic.twitter.com\/OFxuJ9XI25<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported mass displacement from the three villages named in the warning, and it subsequently reported a strike on one of the villages, Arqoun,” the report continues.<\/p>\n

And\u00a0Al Jazeera<\/em><\/a>\u00a0also reports Friday that “Israel’s\u00a0deadly strikes continue across Lebanon,\u00a0killing at least six today, despite the announcement of a new US-brokered ceasefire\u00a0agreed between Lebanese and Israeli officials in Washington, DC.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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