00:00Whether you think that this crisis could somehow reignite those sectarian tensions and even bring about a civil war?
00:08People who are listening to us would assume that our friend from Tehran is on loop.
00:11He repeated himself three times, underscoring the fact that the sectarian system in Lebanon allows Hezbollah and Iran to kill
00:19its Lebanese people.
00:20At the end of the day, regardless of the system itself, if we run a secular system or a sectarian
00:26system, Iran has infringed a number of times on Lebanese sovereignty by creating Hezbollah.
00:31And that's not true that Hezbollah is a Lebanese entity.
00:34Hezbollah was founded by the Arun and Roshi Guards in 1985 in the Biqa'a Valley, and they have been
00:41part and parcel of this.
00:43And this is under the admission of its former Secretary General Hassan Nasrullah.
00:48But more importantly, it is unacceptable to use such a logic.
00:52And here, Tom, I don't agree with you that there are two narratives.
00:54The narrative that I am speaking abides with logic and with international law, whereas the one that is being used
01:02by Iran and its basically outlets is no short of a sectarian recipe for disaster.
01:10The only people who are talking about the civil war and sectarian strive are Hezbollah.
01:15I don't feel that there's anyone in Lebanon who's willing to carry small arms against fellow Lebanese.
01:21However, if Hezbollah decides to attack us because we don't really agree with them politically, we have the Lebanese army
01:28to defend us.
01:29We, as a Lebanese people, and me as a Lebanese historian, know exactly what it takes for a civil war
01:36to happen.
01:36At the moment, no one is willing to engage a dying corpse like Hezbollah who has decided to jump into
01:44the inferno which the Iranians have created by creating Hamas, Hezbollah, and other proxies in the areas.
01:52At the end of the day, what I am saying is clear, and the Vienna Convention is clear, someone who
01:58comments publicly about Hezbollah and Iran coordinating attacks against Israel, regardless if Israel is an enemy of Lebanon or not,
02:07should not hold diplomatic credentials and should not occupy any embassy within Lebanon's domains.
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