Report: Satterfield Voiced Concern over Possible Transfer of Missiles to S. Lebanon

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Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Middle East Affairs David Satterfield expressed during talks in Lebanon last week concerns over the possible relocation of Iranian missile bases and factories from Syria to south Lebanon, a media report said.

Satterfield voiced his remarks in talks with Lebanese leaders as he reassured them that "the Israeli side does not want an escalation over the dispute on territorial and maritime borders," Lebanese ministerial sources told al-Hayat daily in remarks published Sunday.

The U.S. diplomat left Beirut Saturday morning after a several-day visit to Lebanon.

He will join U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on his Middle East tour which will begin in Cairo and will also take him to Beirut.

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Thumb i.report 11 February 2018, 21:34

The Hezbollah weapons cannot be transferred to southern Lebanon. It can only remain nort( of litany and can only be used internally. That’s exactly what’s been happening since the early 2000s.