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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-06T03:47:38.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nLebanese President Joseph Aoun told Iran on Friday to stop interfering in his country, and urged Hezbollah to pursue diplomacy as the only path to ending the conflict with Israel.\n\nIn a CNN interview, Aoun addressed Iran's Revolutionary Guards directly, saying Lebanon was not theirs to control.\n\n#### Does the Lebanese government support Iran's role in Lebanon?\n\nNo. President Aoun has rejected Iranian interference outright, telling Tehran: \"It's not your country, it's our country. It's not your job to interfere into our country.\"\n\nHe accused Iran of using Lebanon as a bargaining chip in its negotiations with the United States, calling the situation unacceptable.\n\n#### Why is Aoun pushing back against Iran now?\n\nHezbollah drew Lebanon into the Middle East war on March 2 with rocket fire at Israel, in response to the killing of Iran's supreme leader in U.S.-Israeli strikes days earlier. Israel responded with massive strikes and a ground invasion. Neither side has respected an April 17 ceasefire.\n\nOn Wednesday, Lebanese and Israeli envoys in Washington agreed to a truce conditional on a complete cessation of Hezbollah fire, without mentioning a halt to Israeli attacks. Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem rejected the deal on Thursday. Tehran insists the fighting in Lebanon and the war in the Gulf are linked, and the head of the Guards' foreign arm said Israel must pull back from its front lines in Lebanon.\n\n#### What did Aoun say about Hezbollah's weapons?\n\nAoun said Hezbollah must accept that negotiation and diplomacy are the only way forward. \"There is no other way to solve this problem and to save what's left except through negotiation and diplomacy,\" he said. He stressed that Lebanon's people, not Hezbollah's leadership, were the country's true constituency.\n\n\"The majority of the Lebanese people are fed up with war,\" he added. Aoun described a \"great opportunity to end the state of hostility between Lebanon and Israel,\" but said Hezbollah's weapons could only be addressed through domestic means, on the condition that Israel withdraws and ends its state of hostility with Lebanon.\n\nHezbollah is Lebanon's only armed faction that refused to disarm after the 1975-1990 civil war, citing Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon as its justification.\n\n#### What is Lebanon's position on ending the war with Israel?\n\nAoun said Lebanon was willing and committed to ending the conflict, and challenged Israeli authorities to match that commitment. \"You need to show some willingness and commitment to end this war,\" he said. \"We are willing, we are committed. Are you?\"\n\nHe also warned that military force alone would not achieve Israel's objectives, pointing to Gaza as evidence. \"Israel can flatten the whole country, but they will never be able to achieve their objective,\" he said. \"They've tried it in Gaza. Hamas still exists.\"",
  "title": "Lebanon president tells Iran 'not your job to interfere' in country"
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