Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri issued the following statement:
After exhausting all attempts to understand the reasons for the Iranian regime’s slaughter of Lebanon and its targeting of the Gulf, and considering it a military sin that will be avoided, or a reckless message that will stop at its borders. It is no longer possible to escape from the truth.
So what did Lebanon do to the Islamic Republic, to plunge it into a devastating war, claiming the lives of its people, and destroying what was left of its structure, which was exhausted by the “proxy wars” that Iran fought on its soil and caused the expansion of the area of aggression to include the capital, Beirut, and terrorize its people, residents, and those displaced there?
Also, the enemy that Tehran declares is Israel, while the one that actually received the largest number of its treacherous strikes is the Gulf. This confirms that the military arsenal that was amassed under the pretext of liberating Jerusalem was intended exclusively to destroy the capitals of the Arabian Gulf. How is it possible that the United Arab Emirates would receive the largest percentage of missiles and drones, in a war that Iran says it is waging with Israel and the United States, despite Abu Dhabi’s clear and repeated declaration that it will not allow its land and skies to be used as a platform for any military action against Iran?
What mind can believe that the vicinity of the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi and its airport are a regional branch of the Pentagon? Who is convinced that Burj Al Arab, Burj Khalifa, the Danat Al Dunya hotels and its airport are military bases from which wars are waged?
As for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which made an exceptional effort to spare Iran from the strike, and spent from its political, diplomatic and moral resources to reduce tension, its oil installations and civilian facilities are still the target of Tehran’s missiles and marches, which responded to Riyadh’s favor with appeals and ingratitude.
Then how did the Social Security Building in the State of Kuwait and the hotels in the Kingdom of Bahrain become aircraft carriers for Washington?
Since when did Qatar, which defended Iran in all forums, and the Sultanate of Oman, which played the role of a diplomatic bridge between Tehran and the world, become American bases for attacking the Islamic Republic?
Aside from any bias, something is unfolding that is difficult to ignore, and we must say it out loud: Tehran’s rulers have a deep pathological hostility towards their Arab neighbors in general, and towards the Gulf states in particular.
Iran’s bullying of all its neighbors, and the launching of missiles and sinful marches towards Türkiye, Azerbaijan and Cyprus, is not just a miscalculation, but extremely dangerous hostile behavior. What is more dangerous is that it provided evidence to the world that the Iranian regime is aggressive in its composition, and responds with fire and destruction to neighbors who did not respond to it except in good faith.
The clear truth today is that if Israel has overturned over the decades all meanings of neighborliness and peace in the region, then the Iranian regime’s missiles did not fall alone, but rather the meaning of neighborliness fell with them, and what remained of the confidence that some people had in a regime that betrayed its people, the day it decided to betray its neighbors and friends.
