Ça c’est l’affaire grotesque du moment au Liban : grotesque, mais très caractéristique. Les médias séoudiens ont inventé une déclaration iranienne selon laquelle le Sud du Liban vivrait sous les ordres de l’Iran. Évidemment, c’est une pure invention (totalement grotesque, évidemment, personne n’imagine pourquoi, si c’était vrai, les iraniens iraient s’en vanter). Ce qui n’empêche pas, depuis, les 14 Mars de faire énormément de bruit autour de cette déclaration qu’ils ont eux-mêmes inventée :
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2012/Jan-23/160776-mp-calls-for-cutting-iran-ties-over-generals-remarks.ashx
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.