TEHRAN, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) — A senior Iranian lawmaker described the recent resignation of the Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri as a mistake and blamed it on Saudi Arabia, Financial Tribune daily reported on Tuesday.
Saudi Arabia has always tried to foment religious and sectarian disputes in Lebanon, which aggravates the country’s internal affairs, said Kamal Dehqani Firouzabadi, a member of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission.
Saudi Arabia wants to weaken “the resistance axis” against Israel in the region, because it fears that the successes achieved by resistance groups in Syria and Lebanon can become “a pan-Arab model” threatening the absolute monarchies in the region, Firouzabadi was quoted as saying.
On Saturday, Hariri announced his resignation claiming that it stemmed from a “rejection of Iran’s political over-extension in the region.”
“I declare my resignation from the premiership of the Lebanese government, with certainty that the will of the Lebanese is strong,” Hariri said in an unexpected move in a televised statement he read from the Saudi capital Riyadh.
His country “would be able to overcome political influence exerted by internal and external forces,” he said, adding that the “Islamic Republic (of Iran) has a desire to destroy the Arab world and has boasted of its control over the decisions of Arab capitals.”
“Iran’s hand would be cut off,” Hariri said, adding that “Lebanon would not play a role in destabilizing the region.”
He also implicated Lebanese Hezbollah Shiite group in what he views as Iran’s race to regional domination.
Accordingly, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said that the resignation of Hariri is aimed to create tension in Lebanon and the region.
“Mr. Hariri’s sudden resignation and the announcement of his resignation in another country is regretful and at the same time surprising,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi said in a statement.
“It shows Hariri is playing in a field prepared by those who wish ill for the region, and the winner of this game is both Arab countries and the Zionist regime (of Israel) whose survival is contingent upon tension in regional Muslim countries,” Qasemi said.
At a time when the life of the so-called Islamic State and other terrorist groups in the region is coming to an end, efforts should be made to calm the situation and to fix the damage by terrorists trained and sponsored by the United States and its regional allies, he said. Enditem
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