00:00Nabi Birri is an interlocutor for Hezbollah.
00:02And if you want to get to Hezbollah without talking to them directly,
00:06you talk to Nabi Birri and hope that the message is sent.
00:10That said, Nabi Birri is also representing overt caution
00:16and perhaps at times rejection of what is happening in Washington, D.C.,
00:20even though the government has sought forth the negotiations,
00:24the trilateral agreement that was signed between Lebanon, Israel and American mediation,
00:30Nabi Birri has said so far at least that should it be ratified, it would be rejected.
00:35Meaning if it's brought to Lebanon's parliament and himself a speaker of parliament,
00:40they would reject it.
00:41So that said, Nabi Birri is representing the kind of extreme caution
00:46that one would assume the language he's using is to protect Hezbollah.
00:51And I think the Syrian foreign minister is trying to push as far as he can
00:56in finding a way that's good for both Syria and Lebanon.
01:00Because at the end of the day, Hezbollah is not just a Lebanese problem.
01:04Hezbollah is Iran's interests in Lebanon.
01:07And Hezbollah not that long ago fought a brutal war
01:11alongside the Syrian regime against Syrian opposition.
01:15There's very bad blood.
01:17But you want to make sure that Iran's project, if you can call it that,
01:21in Lebanon does not spill over once more into Syria.
01:25And I think the Syrians are very careful to prevent that from happening.
01:28boing.
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