Lebanese Prime Minister: I am waiting for the help of the Arab brothers, but they have not contacted me yet.
The new Lebanese prime minister said in an interview that he had been waiting for the Arab big brothers to help the country, but that no Arab country had contacted him so far.
Lebanon’s new Prime Minister Najib Mikati said the Lebanese government is waiting for an Arab “older brother” to help the country overcome its economic and social crisis.
“Lebanon is a small country in the Arab world, and we are looking for an older brother in each of the Arab countries to take our hands and get Lebanon out of this turmoil,” he told Cyanan News Network.
In this interview, the new Lebanese Prime Minister stressed that Lebanon will be stable for the benefit of the entire Arab world.
“Hezbollah is a political party in Lebanon and it cannot be ignored,” Mikati said in response to a question about Hezbollah allies in his government.
He said no Arab country had contacted him since his government was formed last week, but expressed hope that he would receive a “positive response”.
Mikati said he had received few calls from members of the US government, all of whom said they would support the government, but Biden had not yet contacted him.
Reacting to Lebanese Hezbollah’s move to import Iranian fuel tankers into Lebanon, which is a challenge to US sanctions, Mikati said the Lebanese government did not agree to the tankers, so he did not expect his government to be subject to US sanctions.
Lebanon has been facing a deteriorating economic situation for the past year and a half as a result of US sanctions, including severe fuel shortages.
Lebanese Hezbollah has also bought fuel from Iran to help ease the pressure on the Lebanese people, and fuel tankers have been sent to various parts of Lebanon since yesterday (Thursday).
Following the victory of Hezbollah in Lebanon, the American newspaper “New York Times” wrote in a note today that Hezbollah in Lebanon was able to win the competition with the United States.
“The Lebanese Hezbollah militant group announced on Thursday that it had imported one million gallons of diesel through the Syrian border,” the memo said.
The New York Times writes that the Lebanese “celebrated the outrage of the United States on the one hand, and the provision of the urgent needs of a country almost paralyzed by fuel shortages.”
As Lebanon suffers one of the worst economic collapses in modern history, Hezbollah has emerged as a national savior and set foot on a field where the Lebanese government and its Western backers have failed.
The New York Times adds that as fuel trucks entered Lebanon, Hezbollah supporters lined the streets, waving Hezbollah flags, chanting heroic songs, distributing sweets and illuminating the sky.
On the other hand, despite the concerns and interventionist statements of the Zionist regime officials about the import of Iranian fuel to Lebanon and the efforts to secure this issue, Tel Aviv did not dare to act against this caravan.
A senior Israeli military official acknowledged today (Friday) that any action against Iran’s fuel convoy to Lebanon was an unnecessary tension and that Tel Aviv had no intention of doing so.
