The head of the Future Movement, Saad Hariri, and his aunt, Bahia Hariri, in downtown Beirut, on Feb. 14, 2026. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/L'Orient-Le Jour) The head of the Future Movement, Saad Hariri, and his aunt, Bahia Hariri, in downtown Beirut, on Feb. 14, 2026. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/L'Orient-Le Jour)
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri condemned “in the strongest terms the unacceptable Iranian aggression against several Arab Gulf states.”
“I express my full solidarity with these countries and their peoples and consider this aggression a serious threat to Arab national security and a blatant violation of the sovereignty of nations that have consistently worked to promote security and peace in the region and ensure stability and prosperity for their populations,” Hariri wrote on X.
He also called for “a clear policy that prioritizes Lebanon’s interests.” “This policy must reject any attempt to drag Lebanon into the vortex of wars or turn it into a theater for regional confrontations, at a time when the Lebanese people have already paid a heavy price in lives, livelihoods and stability as a result of wars that have brought nothing but destruction and misery,” said the former prime minister and head of the Future Movement.
“I call on everyone to adopt a responsible stance and rally behind the state and its institutions to guarantee Lebanon’s neutrality in any military confrontation amid the current escalation,” he added, in a thinly veiled message to Hezbollah.
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