Lebanese report: Lebanese Speaker of the parliament, Nabih Berri, asked Iran to neutralize Lebanon – and even sought a fatwa to let Hezbollah surrender its precision weapons.
The two large Shiite groups in Lebanon, Amal and Hezbollah, have long operated as the two pillars of Lebanon’s Shiite political camp, formally aligning in the 1990s to coordinate their military, political, and communal influence. While Amal is traditionally more pragmatic and tied to state institutions, Hezbollah functions as Iran’s armed proxy—an imbalance that has increasingly strained their partnership.
A new report in the Lebanese newspaper Nidaa al-Watan claims that a serious internal split has emerged inside Lebanon’s Shiite alliance, with Amal adopting a position sharply different from Hezbollah.
According to a diplomatic source quoted by the paper, Amal leader and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has delivered three major demands directly to Tehran—each reflecting his growing alarm over Lebanon’s deepening entanglement in the regional confrontation driven by Iran.