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The Hezbollah-Amal duo is satisfied with not implementing government decisions and uses civil peace as a cover to evade implementing them.

Army Commander Rudolf Heikal's remarks need correction; the military command is not authorized to decide whether or not to implement after the government decision is issued, and we ask him about the delay in implementation.

Security does not come by consensus

I am one of the peasants rebelling against reality.

Today you pay $500 to sit at the leader's table.

In the past, politicians' houses were open to the peasants.

I believe we are on the threshold of a new phase after the American elections. Either we go to an immediate settlement between the United States and Iran, in which case Iran will have achieved a major victory through its steadfastness, or we go to a military decision, and then we will see what happens.

What we learned from Israel's elections is that the rise of the Arab voice inside is many times stronger than Iran's missiles and "military resistance" movements. Israel gives a lesson in democracy to all of us, especially young Arab generations.

Some criticize me for rejecting the violence at the Jordan church, and remind me of my lack of sympathy with Gaza's martyrs, as if I sympathize with the Christian victim and not with the Muslim victims. I sympathize with every innocent victim, including innocent Jews. I adhere religiously to coexistence wherever it is. The critic loses the eligibility to criticize because of his bias.

Netanyahu seeks an achievement before the elections, but time is not enough to launch a strike that could prompt Iran to respond, thereby aborting his plans and causing voters to turn away from voting.

They are working day and night to develop and strengthen our defensive capabilities. As politicians, we do not interfere with them. I think Washington will be surprised, not only by our ability to withstand, but by the response to aggression through strikes against the Americans; I expect it will be a surprise to them.

For our part, we keep our hands on the trigger to respond to any targeting of us, and we will not remain silent about Israel if it decides to support Washington.

You are not required to intervene to help us. We have the strength and resilience against aggression that allows us alone to defend our land, and we will not agree to end the war and consolidate the ceasefire unless it includes Lebanon and opens the door to implementing the provisions of the Iranian-American memorandum of understanding.

that Tehran will never abandon its allies in Lebanon and leave them alone in a battle they have been fighting for years, and it is not, as some promote, in the business of trading them away

The decision to amend or cancel the law boycotting Israel is a political matter. Circumstances governed the issuance of the law in the era of President Camille Chamoun. Circumstances govern today in the era of President Joseph Aoun in a time of negotiation with Israel and the region turning upside down. Canceling the law has become a need; the Lebanese foreign minister's consultation with the Arab League helps.

The decision to amend or cancel the Israel boycott law is a political matter. Circumstances governed the issuance of the law in the era of President Camille Chamoun. Circumstances govern today in the era of President Joseph Aoun, at a time of negotiation with Israel and the region turning completely upside down. Cancelling the law has become a necessity; consultation by Lebanon's foreign minister with the Arab League helps.

The Israel boycott law prevents any contact with Tel Aviv in any form, but emerging circumstances and political developments now require either amending the law or working to repeal it. This can only happen through issuing a new law stipulating the repeal of the existing law, with the reasons for it linked to the ongoing negotiations.

Bilateral relations between Tehran and Beirut are historical and very close, and are proceeding in different dimensions in a multifaceted way.

There is no point in negotiating, and we are preparing for the worst possibilities; direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel will not reach a result, because the latter is a usurping entity and wants to use the negotiations as a preliminary step to expand its hegemony over the region.

A Druze minority lives in the villages of Al-Matin, Zaroun, Barmana, and Beit Meri. Also, Shia residents are concentrated in the village of Majd al-Tarshish. And on the coast in Al-Fanar, Al-Zaaytriya, Biyaqout, Ras al-Dekwaneh, and Rouissat al-Jadida. And the rest of the villages of the Metn district are a Christian majority, consisting of Greek Orthodox, Greek Catholic, Maronite, Latin, and Protestant.

The last thing we want is to go through a second payment default.

We sometimes have to take politically sensitive decisions because we want to protect our banking sector from any sanctions or external pressure

We saw that all other larger and stronger economies, such as the UAE and Turkey, complied with such requests in order to preserve their banks' relationship with the international financial system. Lebanon cannot bear such a risk

Sending a clear signal to the outside world that we are determined to protect our banking sector from any party that may expose it to contamination risk

no later than mid-2027

will make the implementation of the law more robust, provide greater legal protection, and thus facilitate its passage when referred to parliament.

I am very confident that we will reach, before the end of the year, a consensus with the IMF and the government on the principles that need clarification in the law.

We sometimes have to take politically sensitive decisions because we want to protect our banking sector from any sanctions or external pressures.

Lebanon cannot bear such risks.

Sending a clear signal to the world that we are determined to protect our banking sector from any party that may expose it to contagion risk.