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He noted that “between punishments that affect me and protect our inner peace, the choice was not difficult, and this is the least I do in exchange for people who sacrificed their souls and bodies; martyrs who fell in love with Lebanon, people who fought, were tortured and imprisoned, innocent people whose blood was wasted and the latest victims of the port explosion, and this is the lowest price I pay compared to the price. ” Our ancestors pushed her to stay in this country. ”
He said: “You remember Secretary Pompeo’s visit to Lebanon and when he told me at the State Department that Hezbollah is a terrorist party, and my natural response was that Hezbollah is a Lebanese party: your classification of you and our classification of us.”
He added: “When the US secretary asked me to leave Hezbollah and confront him, I explained to him that this leads to the isolation of the Shiites, that is, it leads to internal conflicts, so can we find him in his place in the Foreign Ministry? when conflict occurs to help us prevent bloodshed? Do you guarantee there will be no conflict? Sure, your answer was no.
Bassil said: “The sanctions talk started in earnest in the summer of 2018, with the formation of the second Hariri government, in which I worked as a minister due to the insistence of Hariri himself, when a knowledgeable person came to tell me that it is necessary. be chancellor because the diplomatic immunity of the site prevents the imposition of sanctions. “
He continued: “When Hariri resigned or was asked to resign, the matter immediately coincided with his declaration of disapproval of being with him in any government; that is, we suddenly went from not agreeing to form a government without me to not agreeing to form a government where I would be and someone came to alert me. They want to strip me of my diplomatic immunity. ”
He noted that “The President of the Republic informed me that a senior US official called him and asked him to dismantle the FPM’s relationship with Hezbollah immediately, and asked him to quickly inform me of the matter, and the next day they informed me directly of the I need to comply with 4 demands immediately, otherwise US sanctions will be imposed after 4) days. “
And he added: “The demands are: immediately dissolve the relationship with Hezbollah and three other points.”
He said: “Of course with the lawsuits and speaking completely, there is no word about corruption, and my natural quick reaction was that things are not going that way for me and that I reject this issue and that it contradicts a basic principle of the principles of the movement, which is his refusal to receive instructions from any foreign country and I also said that if we accept that it will go away. ” The relationship with us in this way, we become like the others, that is, we accept to place orders and instructions and become clients while we want to be friends, we are friends and not clients ”.
He stressed: “After that, there were interactions with me to convince me that the goal of the Americans was to impose sanctions on me, but to polarize me to be a partner and friend and proof that others were not warned, but I wanted to give myself the opportunity to save myself because they they love me, and we hear on various levels of words that they don’t. ” We want to lose our relationship with Basil. ”
