Iranian regime’s meddling in Lebanon's election and its catastrophic consequences for the Middle East and the Mediterranean region
NCRI – Iranian Resistance warns against widespread meddling of the Iranian regime in Lebanon's upcoming elections and its catastrophic consequences for the Middle East and the Mediterranean region. It calls for the formation of an anti-fundamentalist front by all countries as well as political parties and forces in the region to prevent the religious fascism’s progress in the area and evict it from the whole region.
The clerical regime which has no support among Iranians has found the export of terrorism and fundamentalism crucial for its survival. Senior officials of the Iranian regime have repeatedly described Lebanon and Palestine as part of their “strategic depth.”
For years, mullahs have planned to devour Lebanon in order to achieve their sinister goal of establishing an "Islamic empire". Since 2003, the mullahs’ infiltration into Iraq and the subsequent hidden occupation of that country, has enabled the clerical regime to intensify its aggression into Lebanon which had been launched by Khomeini in the early 1980s.
The regime intends to help groups formed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and its proxies to win the elections and bring them to power in Lebanon. To this effect, the mullahs are spending billions of dollars to create divisions among nationalist and anti-fundamentalist forces, conspiring and committing terrorist activities against them. Over the past few years and particularly following the July 2006 war, Iranian regime has spent tens of billions of dollars from the Iranian people's wealth for advancement of this project in Lebanon.
On May 25, Ahmadinejad explicitly stated that by the success of the regime's agents and proxies in the Lebanese election "the situation in the region will change, a new front will be formed, and the resistance front will be strengthened in the whole region." Hezbollah has also explicitly announced that the Iranian regime and in particular Khamenei will not refrain from "handing over unconditionally weapons and military equipment to strengthen the Lebanese army and support the resistance".
As many nationalist and democratic Arab personalities express their concern, the above remarks clearly indicate that the Iranian regime intends to use Lebanon as a military garrison and a base for its meddling in other Arab countries and in the Mediterranean region.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
June 5, 2009
