Resolution 1929, cover for Zionists crimes: Lebanese Envoy

Tehran, June 19, IRNA – Lebanon’s ambassador to Tehran said Saturday that Resolution 1929 issued by the UN Security Council against Iran was an effort to cover up the recent Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip.

Zein Moussawi made the remarks while talking to an IRNA correspondent in an exclusive interview in Tehran.

Despite the fact that Lebanon was an abstainer when the anti-Iran resolution was issued, most of the Lebanese people were against the sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran, the ambassador said.

Asked whether the UN Security Council’s sanctions on Iran, considering the Tehran Declaration, was legal or not, Moussawi said Lebanon believes no further sanctions against Iran should be employed.

Tehran has recently reached an agreement on its nuclear program with the two other countries of Turkey and Brazil which has been called the Tehran Declaration.

On the recent nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference in New York, the Lebanese ambassador opined that Israel in that conference was asked for the first time to join the NPT.

About the visit of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri to Iran, Moussawi informed that he will travel to Iran in a near future but the exact timing has not been fixed yet.

During his stay in Tehran, al-Hariri is due to confer with top Iranian officials on the eco-political issues, Moussawi added.

Lebanon is completely ready to defend against any attacks by Israel, the Lebanese ambassador answered as asked about the issue.

He, at the end, hoped for escalation of ties between Tehran and Beirut based on mutual respect./end