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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hezbollah minister accuses US of interference in internal politics
2005-07-21
BEIRUT - The sole Hezbollah member in Lebanon’s new cabinet said on Wednesday that Washington was interfering in Lebanese affairs after US officials warned that they would not conduct political business with him. “Our presence in government is an affair that concerns the Lebanese people,” the new energy and water resources minister Mohamed Fneish said.
"And my Iranian masters," he added softly.
“The US intervention in our affairs is against democracy,” he said in a statement.

He stressed that Hezbollah is a “politically and militarily representative force in Lebanon”, adding “what interests us is serving our masters in Iran people...not whether it pleases the United States or not.”
What interests them is keeping Lebanon unstable.
US State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said Tuesday that no official decision has been made regarding Fneish’s inclusion in the new cabinet, which still must be confirmed by the Lebanese parliament.

Fneish said “our problem is with the US policy and that Washington does not want to forgive the resistance for having liberated our land and having hunted their allies, the Israelis in the south (of Lebanon.)
Posted by:Steve White

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