Al-Rahi: Hezbollah’s entry into Iranian oil is a derogation from Lebanon’s sovereignty

Maronite Patriarch Bechara Al-Ra’i considered that Hezbollah’s introduction of Iranian oil constitutes a “threat” to Lebanon’s sovereignty.

After his meeting with Lebanese President Michel Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda, Al-Rahi claimed to have “spoken in past of Lebanese sovereignty “.

He added: “I said that the entry of Iranian fuel tanks under a security authority, the Syrian army and Hezbollah, is not allowed, and this is what I have called an exemption from Lebanon’s sovereignty and I cannot accept it. “.

life problems

On the other hand, Al-Rahi congratulated the Lebanese for the new government, saying that “it opens hope and hope for them”, noting that “the purpose of the visit to Baabda is to discuss life problems”.

Al-Rahi said: “Our hope is great that as long as there is a government and excellent people within it, there is no fear that Lebanon will move forward and that life will return to the way it was, provided that the politicians ( interfering) in the government and ministers do not deal with justice, and also that sects do not deal with justice “.

Separation of powers and religion from the state

He added: “The separation of powers and religion from the state means that clerics do not interfere in the appointments and that politicians should take care of their political affairs and not interfere with the administration and the judiciary.”

The speech on the non-interference of politics and sects in the judiciary arrives in response to the Hezbollah attack on the judicial investigator in the explosion of the port of Beirut, in addition to the use of some politicians called to investigate religious platforms to answer the judge.

Regarding whether he agreed with the ministerial declaration (the government program) for the new government, Al-Rahi said: “I am not obliged to agree, and we fully trust the responsible authority, and this what concerns us is to serve the country and live with sovereignty and freedom of decision “, observing that” the House of Representatives must organize the electoral law to exercise the right to vote in expatriates.

And on Thursday morning, dozens of tankers loaded with Iranian diesel, which Hezbollah had brought from its main supporter Tehran, entered. in Lebanon, from neighboring Syria, the second expedition of its kind.

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