Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf says peace will not be possible in Lebanon without Iran playing its role as a stabilizing force.
Qalibaf made the remarks in a Sunday meeting with Muhammad Fneish, a senior member of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, who was in Tehran to attend funeral ceremonies for the late Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
Qalibaf said in the meeting that the recent US-Israeli aggression against Iran, which caused conflicts in the wider West Asia region, including in Lebanon, proved that peace in the region can only be achieved through Iran.
The senior official said the memorandum of understanding reached between Iran and the United States last month has set clear conditions for cessation of aggression against Iranian-allied resistance forces in the region, including on Hezbollah.
“We had a special emphasis on Lebanon’s territorial integrity and sovereignty,” Qalibaf said of the negotiations that led to the signing of the Iran-US agreement, in which he led the Iranian negotiation team.
He also appreciated Hezbollah’s brave fighting against the Israeli regime in support of Iran during the recent US-Israeli aggression on Iran, saying that the fight was a “turning point in history” which showed the “unbreakable bond” between resistance groups and Iran.
Fneish, for his part, said that Hezbollah considers itself a part of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, saying relations between the Lebanese group and the Islamic Republic of Iran have always been brotherly and based on religious and revolutionary bonds.
He said that it was Iran’s intervention that forced a ceasefire to the recent war in Lebanon.
“We believe that the war in Lebanon has been halted through the intervention of the Islamic Republic of Iran and by compelling the United States and the Zionist regime to comply with the terms outlined in the memorandum of understanding, and that the end of the war may also be achieved through this same path,” said Fneish.
