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Mikati: No Iranian Military in Lebanon

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati dismissed the allegations raised by the western officials and media that Iran has sent its military personnel to Lebanon.

“We are confident there is no Iranian military force in Lebanon,” Mikati told reporters on Friday.

He also said that Lebanon cannot be a base against Syria which is hit by internal crisis, therefore the Lebanese army has got its own necessary program to support and protect its own land.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country.

In October, calm was eventually restored in the Arab state after President Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but Israel, the US and its Arab allies are seeking hard to bring the country into chaos through any possible means. Tel Aviv, Washington and some Arab capitals have been staging various plots in the hope of stirring unrests in Syria once again.

The US and its western and regional allies have long sought to topple Bashar al-Assad and his ruling system. Media reports said that the Syrian rebels and terrorist groups have received significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks, a crime paid for by the Persian Gulf Arab states and coordinated by the United States.

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