Aoun to Al-Manar: Anything We Do is Targeted!

Source: Al-Manar TV, 15-10-2008
While the establishment of diplomatic ties between Lebanon and Syria turned out to be the main source of interest on Wednesday amid hopes that it would open a new "white" page between the two neighbor countries, some Lebanese prominent figures were still preoccupied in assailing the head of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc MP Michel Aoun over his official historic visit to Iran.
However, Aoun said that the critics against his visit to Iran wouldn't be harder than the criticism he was subject to when he supported the Resistance during the "Israeli" 2006 war against Lebanon, saying that his critics were like "women who always swear at others."
"We are now in the axis of evil and the visit is targeted, and I am targeted too and anything I do will be targeted also even if I pray at the church," Aoun told Al-Manar correspondent in Iran.
The General pointed out that the main competition in the 2009 parliamentary elections would be in Christian areas. "That is why they escalate their criticism; they are seeking to plant things in the heads of Christian voters that are different from the nature of this visit," Aoun explained.
"We didn't find any differences with Iran concerning Lebanese policy," Aoun said, noting that the Islamic Republic supports the Lebanese state's policies and not the opposition's ones.
Aoun confirmed that no one in Lebanon was supporting terrorism, but he warned that "terrorism is infiltrating to us through states that sometimes claim to be helping us."
Aoun met earlier in the day Iran's nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili who thanked the FPM leader for his "constructive and positive role aimed at bolstering national unity in Lebanon, backing the resistance and developing Islamic-Christian coexistence."
Aoun also held talks with head of the parliamentary national security and foreign affairs committee Alaa Din Broujourdi who praised the FPM leader's "role in backing steadfastness of the resistance and helping the Arabs walk tall after defeats that some had thought are lasting."