In a series of closely spaced positions, Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem asked the Lebanese government what it had done to enable the army to protect Lebanon and its people, and called on the state to prepare all the conditions for the Lebanese army to confront Israel. He stressed that the resistance must remain, continue and equip itself, rejected disarming it, said Iran had settled the outcome and that Trump and Netanyahu were defeated, and criticized the statement of the five embassies.