By Lama Al-Makhour
This decision aligns with the American-Israeli proposal that calls for all weapons to be held solely by the Lebanese state — a state that, naturally, would not dare to fire a single bullet at the Zionist entity, just as it failed to do during the recent war that lasted 66 days.
On August 5, 2025, Lebanon’s sovereign ministers emerged from the session with expressions of pride on their faces.
Many considered it a historic meeting. Indeed, never before has a government convened to strip an indigenous resistance movement of its weapons while the enemy continues to bombard the entire territory.
This is the Israeli regime’s message: “We do not see you. We do not even acknowledge your government’s decisions. We bomb your land with planes flying in your skies while you carry out our orders.”
The Lebanese state thought that the country emerged from the last war defeated, broken, and weak — so it wandered through the halls of diplomacy that brought nothing but humiliation.
Meanwhile, the Lebanese resistance environment seeks to prove the opposite: that we are still strong, we shall not retreat or surrender under any circumstances, and we shall continue to resist the enemy.
This environment no longer counts how many stones fell during the war, but instead remembers the contours of its greatest loss — one that cannot be compensated by rebuilding an entire country: the loss of its leadership, the steadfast father of the resistance that the people leaned on for so long and who never abandoned them — Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
This environment, which has undoubtedly suffered great losses — so many that it no longer keeps count — began to recover its spirit and determination during the recent Israeli-imposed war against Iran.
Lebanese people sat under the skies for days, watching Iranian missiles strike deep inside Israeli-occupied territories and sow terror in the hearts of those who had long danced on the sanctity of the resistance’s martyrs — martyrs from every corner of the Lebanese-Iranian-Palestinian-Iraqi-Yemeni Axis of Resistance.
They sat and chanted with every Iranian missile: “Far from us is humiliation — O God, protect Imam Khamenei for us — We are at your service, O Nasrallah.”
No one helped them recover and regroup but Iran: its leadership, its people, and its incredibly brave armed forces.
Amid the daily Israeli-American air raids across Lebanon, a different kind of message arrived: Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, who came to Beirut on August 13, coming from a land that never compromised on the blood of its people, unlike our country.
The Lebanese resistance movement organized a massive reception at the gates of Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut, even as some sections close to the enemy incited against welcoming Larijani and called for him to be barred from entering Lebanon.
But he came, after a brief trip to Iraq, carrying a veiled message to all those conspiring — whether openly or secretly — against the resistance axis.
“If the Lebanese people suffer one day, we in Iran will feel that pain too, and we will stand by our dear Lebanese brothers under all circumstances,” he said with remarkable clarity and conviction after his meetings.
In other words, Hezbollah’s weapons will not be touched, let alone removed from the scene. Iran is there to protect the Lebanese resistance. And no one has forgotten what its missiles did to the Israeli regime’s hollow might just months ago, proving it's nothing more than a spider's web.
He also brought a silent, emotional message to the resistance — not spoken aloud, but conveyed through the peace of his hands and his reassuring smile to the crowd.
“You are not weak. You are not alone. Iran is with you,” he said, addressing those who have long defended Lebanon from external aggression and continue to stand their ground firmly and resolutely.
The image that was circulating on social media for days spoke volumes. Larijani raised his hand in greeting to those who had come to welcome him, stepped out of his car, and looked into the faces of people around, wearing a smile, as if he were embracing their shoulders from afar.
During a presser in Beirut, the top Iranian security official appeared steady in his words and strong in his body language.
His features didn’t suggest defiance as much as they conveyed a blend of firmness and a sense of responsibility.
When he said that it is American dictates that are imposed on Lebanon, not Iranian decisions, he didn’t raise his voice. Instead, his eyes spoke with clarity, and his open hands before him reflected a willingness for dialogue, not escalation.
He came across as a man not seeking to condemn others, but to present a voice different from what is usually conveyed in the media.
Larijani’s words weren’t purely political; they carried a human tone that understood Lebanese fears and spoke of a small country tossed about by influence from every direction.
His words felt like someone placing a finger on a wound whose depth he knows — not to exploit it, but to point to those who caused it.
Larijani visited Lebanon and departed after patting the shoulders of the crowd — the resistance crowd — and affirming their strength, even as the world, America, Israel, and a large portion of the Lebanese people conspire against them.
History will record that one visit — Larijani’s visit — rejuvenated the spirit of the Lebanese nation while the world was busy trying to convince us we were already dead.
Lama Al-Makhour is a Lebanese writer who lost several members of her family as well as friends in the recent Israeli aggression against her country.
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