{"id":28966,"date":"2025-08-15T22:42:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=28966"},"modified":"2025-08-15T22:42:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:57:29","slug":"hezbollah-says-govt-handing-lebanon-to-israel-with-disarmament-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/hezbollah-says-govt-handing-lebanon-to-israel-with-disarmament-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah says govt &#8216;handing&#8217; Lebanon to Israel with disarmament bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem on Friday accused Lebanon&#8217;s government of &#8220;handing&#8221; the country to Israel by pushing for the group&#8217;s disarmament, warning it would fight to keep its weapons.<br \/>\nQassem spoke in a televised address after meeting Iran&#8217;s top security chief Ali Larijani, whose country has long backed the Lebanese militant group.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah emerged badly weakened from last year&#8217;s war with Israel, and under US pressure the Lebanese government has ordered the army to devise a plan to disarm the group by the end of the year.<br \/>\nIran, whose so-called &#8220;axis of resistance&#8221; includes Hezbollah, has also suffered a series of setbacks, most recently in the war with Israel that saw the United States strike its nuclear sites.<br \/>\n&#8220;The government is implementing an American-Israeli order to end the resistance, even if it leads to civil war and internal strife,&#8221; Qassem said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The resistance will not surrender its weapons while aggression continues, occupation persists, and we will fight it&#8230; if necessary to confront this American-Israeli project no matter the cost,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nQassem urged the government &#8220;not to hand over the country to an insatiable Israeli aggressor or an American tyrant with limitless greed&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem on Friday accused Lebanon&#8217;s government of &#8220;handing&#8221; the country to Israel by pushing for the group&#8217;s disarmament, warning it would fight to keep its weapons. Qassem spoke in a televised address after meeting Iran&#8217;s top security chief Ali Larijani, whose country has long backed the Lebanese militant group. Hezbollah emerged badly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28968,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28966\/revisions\/28968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}