Former Hezbollah deputy Nawaf Moussawi speaking on the al-Mayadeen channel. (Screenshot)
Nawaf al-Mousawi did it again. Following the controversy he caused in 2019 when he accused former President-elect Bachir Gemayel (who was assassinated three weeks after his election) of having acceded to power thanks to an Israeli coup de force, the former Hezbollah MP brought it up again on Friday. This time, he threatened in thinly veiled terms any future president who would be elected without Hezbollah’s green light. This great deal of intimidation was directed in particular at the Christian opposition. “He’ll never make it [to the presidential palace]. And even if he succeeds in being elected, this president will not live,” said Mousawi in an interview with Hezbollah’s al-Manar channel. To rub it in, this former member of Hezbollah’s political bureau recalled the assassination of Bachir Gemayel by Habib Chartouni, a former member of...
Nawaf al-Mousawi did it again. Following the controversy he caused in 2019 when he accused former President-elect Bachir Gemayel (who was assassinated three weeks after his election) of having acceded to power thanks to an Israeli coup de force, the former Hezbollah MP brought it up again on Friday. This time, he threatened in thinly veiled terms any future president who would be elected without Hezbollah’s green light. This great deal of intimidation was directed in particular at the Christian opposition. “He’ll never make it [to the presidential palace]. And even if he succeeds in being elected, this president will not live,” said Mousawi in an interview with Hezbollah’s al-Manar channel. To rub it in, this former member of Hezbollah’s political bureau recalled the assassination of Bachir Gemayel by Habib Chartouni, a...