MP Ahmed Fatfat said Friday the Lebanese People would "reject whatever agenda that contradicts state sovereignty ... Even if included in the cabinet's policy statement." Fatfat, addressing supporters in the northern Minyeh district, said the Lebanese people "would not accept a policy statement imposed by the force of weapons." "We back resistance against Israel and we were pioneers in such a resistance," Fatfat declared. "But we are against a resistance that has become a militia deployed in the streets of Beirut, the Bekaa and Tripoli," he pledged.
Fatfat recalled that Iran's vice president who also heads Iran's Atomic Energy Agency has offered to swap Lebanon's stability for western approval of Tehran's nuclear program.