Lebanese PM: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard directing Hezbollah operations in Lebanon

Lebanon’s Prime Minister, Nawaf Salam, said on Sunday that members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are directing Hezbollah’s operations in the ongoing conflict with Israel. In an interview with Al Hadath TV, Salam again criticised Hezbollah, accusing it of dragging Lebanon into the ongoing Middle East war by launching rockets at Israel. Salam said the conflict had been framed as retaliation for the killing of Ali Khamenei, who he said was killed on the first day of a US-Israeli attack on Iran on 28 February. “This means the war was imposed on us,” he added. Referring to a drone strike earlier this month that hit a British military base in Cyprus, Salam said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard had launched the drones […]