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MP calls for cutting Iran ties over general’s remarks

BEIRUT: Beirut Future MP Nuhad Mashnouq called Sunday on Prime Minister Najib Mikati to break off diplomatic relations with Tehran to protest remarks made by the commander of Iran’s elite Al-Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards Corp, Qassem Suleimani, who was quoted as saying that south Lebanon fell under Iran’s influence.

Mashnouq urged Mikati “to cut diplomatic relations with Iran in order to make the commander of the Revolutionary Guards understand that Lebanon is not the appropriate place to announce his statement.”

Suleimani, said: “In reality, in south Lebanon and Iraq, the people are under the effect of the Islamic Republic’s way of practice and thinking.”

But Suleimani’s remarks were mistranslated by Arabic media and interpreted by March 14 politicians to mean that south Lebanon was under Iran’s influence.

Suleimani’s remarks have drawn harsh criticisms from some March 14 politicians who demanded that Hezbollah clarify its statement.

A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on January 23, 2012, on page 3.
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para January 23, 2012 06:42 PM

Hope you westerners now comprehend that a very small number of Mullahs, are not only mocking some 70 million people of the LAND OF CYRUS; PERSIA, but the whole world! Once, the hired deceived of MULLAHS took the American diplomats hostage and repeatedly burnt the national symbol of Americans and many other Europeans' FLAGS, which I really remember how most of our people and I hated such brutal acts; then they command their hired to abuse and capture the British embassy, and now they are ignoring any humanity's norm, and try to spark a bloody war in the Gulf and finally region!!

But the money is still the HOLIEST for Russian regime and China's; that suport the Mullahs tyranny's regime; the main foe of democracy. However the western regimes are also condescend, because their greedy companies never forget beneficiary! WHY not the westerners kick all diplomats of the Islamic regime out despite the many reasons, and patch it away, instead of social aid sanctions!?

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