"Where is the integrity of the Lebanese authority and its responsibility towards its people and the protection of Lebanon’s sovereignty, which the American guardian did not grant a ceasefire to?
Direct negotiations are purely gratuitous concessions to Israel because they are meetings to impose submission to the demands of aggression.

You have no leverage to fight with because you voluntarily abandoned the power of the resistance and the people. You stabbed the resistance in the back by declaring it outlawed in the heart of the war, from the very first moment, by the government's ill-fated decision.

The memorandum of understanding guarantees the safety of Lebanese territory and its sovereignty through a complete Israeli withdrawal agreed upon within 60 days. The authorities are legitimizing the continuation of the occupation for many years and may even lead to the annexation of these lands to the Zionist entity.

Any agreement must be limited to the area south of the Litani River and must not be linked to any internal Lebanese matters concerning weapons, security, or the future of the country. Linking the Israeli withdrawal to the disarmament of the resistance throughout Lebanon is a very dangerous proposal that crosses all red lines. No one has the right to deprive the Lebanese of their right to defend themselves and their land against the occupier of our land and the killer of our people.

The framework agreement in Washington is humiliating, shameful, and a surrender of sovereignty. The framework agreement is nonexistent and the provisions of the Iranian-American memorandum of understanding must be implemented. We will pursue all means and international and Arab pressures to ensure the enemy adheres to the first clause of the memorandum of understanding and withdraws from Lebanon.

It is time for the Lebanese authorities to retract their sin that is destroying Lebanon, and we are ready to cooperate for the sovereignty of Lebanon and the liberation of its land. We did not abandon the field in the most difficult circumstances and we will not abandon it."

The statement issued by the so-called "Tripartite Framework" in Washington, comprising the United States, Israel, and Lebanon, reveals a distortion of facts and concepts, particularly concerning the legitimate resistance, its rights, and its national role, as well as those who constitute the actual and legal threat to Lebanese sovereignty. The statement deliberately inverts the truth and adopts and perpetrates forbidden and reprehensible acts with premeditation.

The statement also demonstrates the Lebanese government's complete subservience to the logic of American hegemony and its complicity with the Zionist enemy against its own people, who are deeply rooted in their land, reject the Israeli occupation, and are steadfast, sacrificing, and refusing to submit or surrender.

The Lebanese government's position, as expressed in the statement, transcends mere shame, disgrace, and depravity. It amounts to a betrayal of Lebanon's sovereignty, the rights and interests of the Lebanese people, their dignity and aspirations, and a blatant disregard for them, a deception of them, and a falsification of their free and honorable national will. The core of this framework agreement remains its insidious and sinister purpose: to legitimize the continued Israeli occupation of Lebanon and provide a loophole that the signatories of the statement mistakenly believe allows America to evade its explicit commitment to Iran regarding its responsibility to pressure Israel to withdraw completely from Lebanon and respect its sovereignty and territorial integrity. The preamble to this framework agreement declares that Lebanon, under American auspices, has agreed to Israel's conditions for withdrawal, and that both parties have pledged to disarm the resistance as a prelude to Israeli redeployment, not a complete withdrawal.

This is an ominous and utterly unacceptable statement, a mere hooting of an owl in Lebanon and the region.

The official also said an Iranian drone struck a tanker carrying 2 million barrels of crude near the Strait of Hormuz, while U.S. forces shot down two other drones targeting commercial shipping.