Report: Hezbollah tells US ready for concessions in return for 'victory image'
The head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc MP Mohammad Raad carried a message to Speaker Nabih Berri on the eve of the Lebanese response to U.S. envoy Tom Barrack’s paper, sources from the U.S. Republican Party said.
“Hezbollah, through its representative, told Berri that it is ready to offer full concessions to the United States in return for being able to claim a victory image through the media,” the Janoubia news portal quoted the sources as saying.
Hezbollah demanded “a partial Israeli withdrawal from five border points and the release of some of the captives, in order to promote such a step as a heroic achievement that would restore some of its eroding popular legitimacy,” the sources claimed.
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