Naim Qassem said in televised address that removing the Iranian terror proxy's weapons is "not in Lebanon's interests"
Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem on Sunday again rejected efforts to disarm Iran’s Lebanese terror proxy, saying that seizing the group’s weapons “is an Israeli-American plan.”
Paying tribute to late Hezbollah official Mohammad Yaghi (Abu Salim) on the second anniversary of his death, Qassem was quoted by AFP as saying that “to demand exclusive arms control while Israel is committing aggression and America is imposing its will on Lebanon, stripping it of its power, means that you are not working in Lebanon’s interest, but rather in the interest of what Israel wants.”
The Lebanese military is working to complete Hezbollah’s disarmament south of the Litani River by year’s end, under a U.S.-backed ceasefire agreement.
