EXCLUSIVE – During an interview with Le Figaro in Geneva, the President of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Ghalibaf, suggests that Tehran would be ready to negotiate with Paris an application of UN Resolution 1701 which provides that only the Lebanese army can be deployed in the south of the country. An essential condition for a return to peace.
Until recently, Mohammad Ghalibaf, 63, speaker of the Iranian Parliament, was little known internationally. But this former Phantom pilot from the Iraq-Iran war (1980-1988) and former mayor of Tehran (2005-2017) has just attracted the spotlight in a spectacular way. This happened on Saturday October 12, 2024 around noon. Piloting the official Airbus of the Islamic Republic of Iran himself, Ghalibaf landed on the runway of Beirut International Airport, which lives under constant threat from F-16s and armed drones from the IDF. Leaving the plane with a smile on his face, he then quietly went to the center of the Lebanese capital, to speak there, at the grand seraglio, with the Prime Minister, Najib Mikati. He then visited the southern neighborhoods of Beirut, which had been hit by Israeli guided bombs, and where Wafic Safa, the head of Hezbollah’s security apparatus, had undoubtedly died. He finally went to Aïn el-Tiné to…
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