LF Officials Criticize Aoun's Response to Iranian Remarks
A number of officials from the Lebanese Forces party on Sunday criticized President Michel Aoun’s response to controversial remarks by a top Iranian general.
“Where is the General Michel Aoun whom I know regarding freedom, sovereignty and independence?” ex-minister Richard Kouyoumjian, head of the LF foreign relations dept., tweeted.
“Mr. President, your tenure has turned into another Iranian model, like al-Huthi in Yemen, al-Maliki in Iraq and Bashar in Syria. Do you know that the least that is being said today is that Lebanon has turned into a failed, violated, isolated and bankrupt state where unemployment, poverty, disease and misery are prevalent?” Kouyoumjian added.
Ex-MP Fadi Karam, the secretary of the LF-led Strong Republic bloc, meanwhile told Aoun in a tweet that his political movement is “still labeling as resistance… the mini-state that is loyal to the Iranian project.”
“This means that you have definitely renounced Lebanese sovereignty, so it would be more honorable for you to refrain from fictional statements,” Karam added.
“There should not be resistance weapons outside of the army’s arsenal. We totally understand that you are not free and that you have exchanged keenness on sovereignty for a few posts,” the LF official went on to say.
MP Pierre Bou Assi of the LF for his part said that Aoun should have said that “there is no partner for the Lebanese state in preserving the country’s independence and sovereignty over its border and territory.”
Aoun had earlier tweeted that “the Lebanese have no partner in preserving their country’s independence, its sovereignty over its border and territory, and the freedom of its decision.”
His tweet came in response to remarks by Brigadier General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, the chief of the Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran.
Hajizadeh told Hizbullah’s al-Manar TV on Saturday that “all the missile capabilities that Gaza and Lebanon possess were achieved through Iran’s support.”
“They are the frontline for the confrontation” against Israel, he added.
03 January 2021, 17:32
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“Mr. President, your tenure has turned into another Iranian model, like al-Huthi in Yemen, al-Maliki in Iraq and Bashar in Syria. Do you know that the least that is being said today is that Lebanon has turned into a failed, violated, isolated and bankrupt state where unemployment, poverty, disease and misery are prevalent?” Kouyoumjian added.
completely agree with this statement, the only difference is that I believe what we are seeing since the past decade, is the product of the previous decades; the Lebanese politicians were busy with self-enrichment, with the support of the religious leaders they divided the population in religious groups which created a fertile ground for back and forth hostilities. conclusion: all without no exception are as guilty. The ordinary Lebanese >80% of the population is paying the price.
03 January 2021, 17:40
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No one is worse than Michel Aoun. He sold his soul to the Devil... and he likes it!
03 January 2021, 22:32
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bit late to criticize someone you elected and marketed as 'made in Lebanon'
04 January 2021, 04:28
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Isn't this so heroic of the good doctor. Mr. Hakim, keep calling out the servants of Iran while you remain the servant of the Saudis and the Zionists with their American lap dogs. Go back to the hole you were let out of and take the whole LF with you. While you're at it take your opponents to that hole where they belong.
04 January 2021, 11:46
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Thankfully we someone speaking out. those thugs in south Beirut thing they have free reign in Lebanon. iran is a cancer way out of control their fate is doomed and their mission is ill thought and ancient in its ideology. The USA Gulf Arabs and Israel did not sign peace accords for nothing...something is cooking and I don't think the satanic republic knows whats going to hit it. Trying to destroy Iraq, Syria, Yemen Lebanon abd Bahrain is going to backfire severely in their faces. The west and Arabs have had enough of iran.
