Exclusive JNews Lebanon
Highly placed government sources have disclosed to JNews Lebanon that the final hours leading up to the issuance of the official Lebanese stance witnessed an unprecedented and highly volatile verbal showdown within the corridors of the Government Serail, nearly dismantling the fragile ministerial stability.
Our exclusive intelligence reveals that ministers representing the Shiite Duo explicitly threatened a mass resignation from the government and a complete withdrawal of political cover if Baabda insisted on pressing forward with the execution of the “Model Zones” mandates without direct, prior coordination with Haret Hreik. The dissenting ministers reportedly labeled the accord a “security trap placed around the neck of the cabinet.”
Sources confirm to our platform that this attempt at political blackmail was met with a decisive and flat rejection from President of the Republic General Joseph Aoun. Through an official envoy, the President notified the concerned parties that “decisions of national sovereignty are not to be bartered for ministerial portfolios; whoever wishes to resign may do so, but the military deployment train has left the station and will not move backward.” This firm stance reportedly drove a senior political figure to shred the draft of a coordination statement that was being prepared behind the scenes to appease Tehran.
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