Velayati is wrong: Hezbollah is not Lebanon’s shield—It is its Burden

Iran’s Supreme leader adviser lectures Beirut on “resistance,” while Lebanon pays the price of a war that was never its own Former Iranian Foreign Minister and Supreme Leader advisor Ali Akbar Velayati recently warned Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam that ignoring Hezbollah’s “indispensable role” would expose Lebanon to “irreparable security risks.” He insisted that Lebanon’s stability depends on “synergy” []