{"id":85878,"date":"2026-04-27T14:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/85878\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:17:15","slug":"lebanons-aoun-calls-hezbollah-traitors-over-opposition-to-israel-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/85878\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon\u2019s Aoun Calls Hezbollah \u2018Traitors\u2019 Over Opposition to Israel Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said his goal is to end the state of war through direct negotiations with Israel.<br \/>\nTensions between Lebanon and Hezbollah are surfacing over whether to pursue direct negotiations with Israel.<br \/>\nLebanon and Israel agreed to a ceasefire, and US President Donald Trump said the ceasefire extension had been announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_feedSummaryContent_newsAnalyticsTitle__IYDf8\">Forecast Trend Report by Period<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Indicator.png\" alt=\"Loading Indicator\" data-hide-on-theme=\"light\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Indicator-dark.png\" alt=\"Loading Indicator\" data-hide-on-theme=\"dark\"\/>See more mid- to long-term trend analysis<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/653f047b-6321-480e-861a-a33d447759be.webp\" alt=\"Photo: Shutterstock\" width=\"646\" role=\"presentation\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Lebanese President Joseph Aoun pushed back against Hezbollah\u2019s opposition to direct negotiations with Israel, accusing the group of treason for dragging Lebanon into war and insisting the talks are meant to end the state of war.<\/p>\n<p>Aoun said in a statement on April 27 that his goal is \u201cto end the state of war with Israel, similar to the 1949 armistice agreement,\u201d according to AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who dragged Lebanon into war are now trying to hold us accountable because we decided to negotiate,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat we are doing is not treason. Treason is committed by those who turn their own country into a battleground to serve foreign interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said in a statement that he firmly rejects direct negotiations with Israel. He urged Lebanon\u2019s leaders to step back from what he called \u201ca grave sin\u201d that would throw the country into a cycle of instability.<\/p>\n<p>Qassem also said Hezbollah would not retreat even if Israeli threats intensify. \u201cWe will not surrender and we will not be defeated,\u201d he said. The dispute over whether to negotiate with Israel is now surfacing openly between the Lebanese government and Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon was drawn into the war on April 2 after Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel in support of Iran. Israel and Lebanon later agreed to a 10-day ceasefire, which took effect at 5 p.m. Eastern Time on April 16. US President Donald Trump said the ceasefire had been extended by three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Still, both sides accuse each other of violating the truce in southern Lebanon\u2019s border area. With the risk of renewed clashes persisting despite the extension, Lebanon\u2019s internal debate over direct talks is set to continue for now.<\/p>\n<p>Oh Se-seong, Hankyung.com reporter sesung@hankyung.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said his goal is to end the state of war through direct negotiations with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3982,16196,16204,16194,16195,16201,16200,16198,16197,16199,9693,16202,93,16203],"class_list":{"0":"post-85878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-bitcoin","9":"tag-bitcoincommunity","10":"tag-blockchain","11":"tag-bloomingbit","12":"tag-coincommunity","13":"tag-coininfo","14":"tag-coininvest","15":"tag-coinnews","16":"tag-coinreview","17":"tag-coinstats","18":"tag-cryptocurrency","19":"tag-ethereum","20":"tag-lebanon","21":"tag-solana"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116477102915180044","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85878","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=85878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}