Beirut – Gulf News, Jan. 30, 2016 – Lebanese Druze leader Walid Junblatt on Saturday reacted to Hezbollah chief’s speech on Friday night where he praised the so called “Iranian democracy” and rejected any claims that it was behind Lebanon’s over two-year presidential deadlock.
Inasmuch as these charm offence for the criminal mullahs in Iran, it was increasingly clear that Lebanese officials were not amused by Hezbollah’s theatrics, and refused to tolerate even the notion that Lebanese democracy—despite its shortcomings—could be or ought to be compared with the Iranian regime theocracy.
Observers believe Iran regime, through its Hezbollah proxy, has no interest in the Lebanese parliament to elect a president.
“If Iran was indeed not hindering the elections, as you are claiming,” Junblatt wrote in his weekly editorial in the Progressive Socialist Party-affiliated Al Anba’a website, “then any citizen has the right to ask what are the real reasons for the lack of quorum at electoral sessions?”
Junblatt reiterated that the vast majority of Lebanese did not want Lebanese democracy “to transform into the Iranian theocracy” as he rejected Nasrallah’s praise of Iran’s election track record.
Lebanon, wrote Junblatt, did not operate on the premise “that the results of [any] election [ought to] be guaranteed in advance before ensuring quorum.”