Representative of Khamenei: Aoun's Election Thwarted Plan to Isolate Hizbullah
The representative of the Supreme Leader to the Revolutionary Guards, Ali Saeedi, said that the United States, Saudi Arabia and Britain had intended to isolate Hizbullah but the party managed through its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's ability to present itself to the society as a model and example for West Asia and Lebanon.
Saeedi told Iran's International Tasnim News Agency that “the election of Aoun as president for Lebanon has definitely limited Saudi Arabia's influence in the country.”
“The influence of foreigners mainly the United States, Saudi Arabia and Britain intended to take out Hizbullah and turn it into an isolated political movement. But Hizbullah managed through its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's ability to present the party to the society as a model and example for West Asia and Lebanon. They used many methods, notably trying not to give the president or the candidate of Hizbullah enough votes,” said Saeedi.
Noting the presidential vacuum in Lebanon, he said: “In the end they believed that they cannot settle problems without taking Hizbullah's opinion, in particular that AMAL and Hizbullah were partners in this issue. Despite the fact that Mr Saad Hariri was a privilege for them, but the main force that they were focusing on was the presidency which has been approved on behest of Hizbullah and the Resistance Front in Lebanon. The reception given to Aoun indicates that a Saudi conspiracy has failed to achieve what it had planned for.”
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