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Source: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5858937
Israeli Ambassador to U.S.: "Iran Has No Business in Lebanon"
(NPR) Steve Inskeep - Israel's Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter told NPR on Tuesday: "It seems that Lebanon has been included in an agreement with Iran, and we think that that's unnecessary and unhelpful. We have an agreement with the United States and with the government of Lebanon that a ceasefire will be implemented in Lebanon, which we've agreed to on the condition that Hizbullah pull back all of its fighters, all of its terrorists, to north of the Litani River." "This, by the way, is an agreement which has been repeated some three times in UN Security Council resolutions, and Hizbullah has not been a party to that agreement. They continue to defy the government of Lebanon and continue to occupy south Lebanon. Just yesterday, we discovered a cache in the western district in south Lebanon of dozens of killer drones, five ton of explosives. So this is something that we simply can't live with. We can't have jihadi terrorists on our border." "The [U.S.] administration was crystal clear that this agreement has nothing to do with our withdrawal from south Lebanon. We're not going to withdraw from south Lebanon, and the madmen of Tehran have no business poking their nose into Lebanon....Iran has no business in Lebanon. The Lebanese want the Iranian IRGC out of there. They want Hizbullah out." "Israel is in south Lebanon to protect its people, like any self-respecting country would do....The people we've killed are Hizbullah terrorists. We don't target civilians....We hope that the million people who have been displaced will be able to return to their homes, as we hope that the Israelis who have been displaced from their homes because of Hizbullah rockets will return to their homes."