Report: Iran asks Hezbollah not to hand over its weapons
One of the Lebanese officials who met with U.S. envoy Tom Barrack on Monday has admitted that 'Hezbollah is clearly trying to gain time,' MTV reported on Tuesday.
'It showed flexibility over the issue of its disarmament before backpedaling and beginning to talk about a bad management of the negotiations with the U.S. prior to reaching the (November) ceasefire agreement,' MTV added.
'Iranian figures visited Lebanon last week and met with officials from Hezbollah with the aim of preventing it from taking any step leading to the handover of its heavy arms,' the TV network said.
'Hezbollah is this way linking the fate of its arms, again, to the Iranian-American negotiations that might be resumed this weekend,' MTV added.
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