Any agreement between Iran and the US will have direct consequences for Lebanon regardless of whether Lebanese authorities accept it, a Hezbollah member of parliament has said after President Donald Trump claimed that a deal with Tehran was imminent.
Hassan Fadlallah, a member of the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc in the Lebanese Parliament, said Iran has insisted on including Lebanon in any potential understanding with Washington.
He stressed that this does not mean Tehran seeks to make decisions for Lebanon but rather wants the Beirut government to benefit from the deal.
"Iran has stood by Lebanon and rejects any agreement that does not include a halt to the aggression against Lebanon," Fadlallah said, dismissing allegations that the resistance's war serves Iranian interests as "completely false" and aimed at "covering up the truth."
Fadlallah also criticized Lebanese authorities for violating their commitment not to engage in negotiations with Israel before a ceasefire is reached, describing the move as a "serious disrespect for the blood of the martyrs."
"How can we sit at the same table with those who continue their crimes against the Lebanese people, while the enemy takes pride in the US role in its destructive project against Lebanon, and the Lebanese authorities have remained silent?" he said.
The Lebanese file has become a central sticking point in US-Iran negotiations. On Sunday, Iran launched missile strikes on Israeli territory in retaliation for an Israeli attack on Beirut's southern suburbs.
Hours later, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned that any further attacks on Lebanon would be met with a broader response "encompassing all American and Zionist targets throughout the region".
Gen. Ali Abdollahi, head of Iran's military central command, said Israel had "crossed all red lines" with the Beirut strike. "Should these acts of aggression be repeated, the responses will be broader in scope," the IRGC said in a statement.
Iranian officials have consistently maintained that Lebanon cannot be excluded from any ceasefire arrangement.
A 10-point Iranian proposal underpinning the April truce explicitly states that "Lebanon and the entire Resistance Axis, as Iran's allies, form an inseparable part of the ceasefire," according to Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf.
