A poster of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, while another, in the background, shows Hassan Nasrallah, the former leader of Hezbollah, in May 2022. (Credit: Louai Bechara/AFP)
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Monday welcomed the memorandum of understanding announced between Iran and the United States and thanked both countries for including a clause calling for a halt to Israeli aggression against Lebanon.
In a statement, the head of the legislature praised "the efforts and initiatives undertaken by Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt to reach this agreement, which, through its provisions, lays the foundation for security and stability in the region, including in Lebanon."
Berri also thanked Iran, the United States and their leaders for "their commitment and insistence on including in the agreed memorandum a fundamental and binding clause on halting Israeli aggression against all of Lebanon, in order to preserve its sovereignty over its entire territory, without jeopardizing the independence and freedom of its national and sovereign decision, and to avoid falling into the trap set by the Israeli political echelon led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu."
The United States and Iran reached an agreement on Monday to immediately end the war in the Middle East on all fronts, including Lebanon, with a signing ceremony scheduled for Friday in Geneva. The agreement was announced Monday morning by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, a mediator in the war, and was confirmed shortly after by Washington and Tehran.
