Lebanon president and PM condemn Iran’s efforts to end Israeli invasion

Lebanon’s president Joseph Aoun — like his prime minister Nawwaf Salam — has objected to Iran’s terms for negotiations with the US, including an end to Israel’s invasion of Lebanon.

The pair’s regime is widely considered a ‘Vichy‘ regime collaborating with its occupiers and their US backers.

Aoun has insisted that “no one negotiates on our behalf” — a position for which Lebanese-American journalist Rania Khalek rightly derided him over.

Khalek pointed out that Aoun — and Salam — are attacking those who, unlike them, are trying to stop Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and the slaughter of Lebanese civilians.

Imagine your country is being bombed, invaded and occupied and your response is to demand that the party who is successfully stopping it quit interfering 🤷🏻‍♀️

The president of Lebanon looks like such a tool, so embarrassing and sad https://t.co/KKSfNwuL8d

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) June 22, 2026

Lebanon and betrayed peoples

The phenomenon of government leaders betraying their own people for Israel and the US is not limited to Lebanon. The UK has only just got rid of an appalling example with the resignation of Keir Starmer. But with Israel as a neighbour, no country can afford such cowardly ‘leaders’.

Featured image via Reuters