Report: US diplomat says no problem with Lebanon's Shiites
There is no problem between the United States and Lebanon's Shiites, whom "we view as having been and still being a fundamental political component in the country," a prominent diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut has been quoted as saying.
"No party, whether external or internal, can ignore their role in political life and their size in the equation that governs Lebanon. Rather, the problem lies with Hezbollah, which is implementing a foreign agenda through its close ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and receiving instructions from it," Asharq al-Awsat newspaper quoted the diplomat as saying.
He was also quoted as saying that Hezbollah is the side that obstructed the completion of the plan prepared by the Army Command and adopted by the government to enforce the state's monopoly on weapons.
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