{"id":190190,"date":"2026-07-04T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T13:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/190190\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T13:55:10","slug":"lebanons-president-urges-us-solidarity-as-israeli-troops-occupy-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/190190\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon\u2019s president urges US solidarity as Israeli troops occupy south"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Saturday urged the United States to stand by his country, after reaching a US-backed framework deal with Israel aiming to permanently end hostilities after the latest Israel-Hezbollah war.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The deal reached in Washington calls for the disarmament of Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, a gradual Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon and the deployment of the Lebanese army there, starting with two \u201cpilot\u201d areas.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hezbollah has rejected the deal, which does not set a timetable for an Israeli withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In a congratulatory message to President Donald Trump marking the United States\u2019 250th anniversary of independence, Aoun urged Washington to \u201ckeep always standing beside Lebanon\u2019s right and just causes, its institutions, army and people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Aoun expressed hope that Lebanon could \u201cturn the page on wars \u2026 and open a new page of hope, peace and stability\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mourners walk outside the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Grand Mosque as one carries a Hezbollah flag during the days-long funeral ceremonies for the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of his family in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/26d5eeeb-2a15-416c-961f-fcd549675062_70eef1df.jpg\" title=\"Mourners walk outside the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Grand Mosque as one carries a Hezbollah flag during the days-long funeral ceremonies for the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of his family in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday. Photo: AP\"\/>Mourners walk outside the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Grand Mosque as one carries a Hezbollah flag during the days-long funeral ceremonies for the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of his family in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In a message also marking the independence anniversary, the US embassy in Lebanon said on social media that \u201cit is with great pride that we stand with the people of Lebanon as they forge a brighter future \u2013 one of peace, prosperity, and promise long overdue\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Saturday urged the United States to stand by his country, after reaching a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[38,56803,100,37,849,5161,93,56802,49,7227,10274,69,56804,51,1705],"class_list":["post-190190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-donald-trump","tag-haneen-sayed","tag-hezbollah","tag-israel","tag-joseph-aoun","tag-lebanese-army","tag-lebanon","tag-mansouri","tag-middle-east","tag-nabatieh","tag-national-news-agency","tag-tehran","tag-united-nations-international-organization-for-migration","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116862053617317856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}