The U.S. and Israeli bombings of Iran earlier this year were devastating to its theocratic dictatorship and were key to helping destabilize its proxy force in Lebanon known as Hezbollah.
But the goal of a truly free and safe Lebanon will remain elusive so long as the Iranian regime remains in power, according to one of the key Lebanese political leaders. Samy Gemayel, chairman of the nationalist Kataeb Party, told Newsmax in a recent interview, “The head of the snake is Iran. Iran is still the problem [for Lebanon].”
“Iran is destabilizing and standing in the way of Middle Eastern peace,” said Gemayel, whose grandfather Pierre founded Kataeb in 1936. “So I think that so long as the regime is what it is in Iran, it will continue to destabilize the region — through Hezbollah, through Hezbollah in Iraq, through Hamas [in Gaza], and through the Houthis in Yemen.”
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