Geagea Says Hizbullah Syria Intervention Dragging Lebanon into 'Inferno of Fire and Iron'

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Thursday accused Hizbullah of dragging Lebanon into “an inferno of fire and iron” through its military intervention in Syria.

“Hizbullah is a mini-state inside the Lebanese state and this mini-state is obstructing the rise of an active and real state,” Geagea told an LF expat delegation.

“Today, the party's objective is to prevent the formation of a new cabinet and, if possible, to postpone the upcoming presidential election,” he added.

The LF leader warned that “Hizbullah's participation in the war and fighting inside Syria has dragged Lebanon into an inferno of fire and iron, which we don't know when or how it will end.”

Geagea noted that “the solution lies in the rise of a real state that would protect Lebanon at the levels of sovereignty, security, economy and social security.”

Hizbullah's key support has helped the Syrian regime recapture the strategic town of Qusayr near the Lebanese border and recently the Homs neighborhood of Khaldiyeh.

In the wake of the Qusayr battle, Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said his group “will be where it needs to be" in Syria which is facing a “very, very dangerous conspiracy.”

Nasrallah had previously justified the group's involvement in Syria by saying it was defending Lebanese-inhabited border villages inside Syria and Shiite holy sites in the Damascus province.

But during a May 25 speech Nasrallah warned that "if Syria falls in the hands of the Takfiris and the United States, the resistance will become under a siege and Israel will enter Lebanon. If Syria falls, the Palestinian cause will be lost.”