BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah's deputy leader Sheik Naim Kassem says the group will "return things" to normal after the government reversed key decisions that had triggered days of conflict. Kassem's comments Thursday came after a meeting with an Arab delegation that is trying to find a solution to Lebanon's worst crisis since the end of the 1975-90 civil war. Clashes between supporters of the government and the Hezbollah-led opposition broke out last week after the Cabinet decided to sack the airport security chief for alleged ties to Hezbollah and declared the militants' private telephone network illegal. The government reversed those decisions Wednesday. Kassem's comments signal Hezbollah may end its civil disobedience campaign and reopen roads in the capital Beirut.
Senior Iranian officials were directly involved in planning and carrying out Hezbollah’s successful takeover of Beirut last week, and believe that their victory is the first step in a new war on Israel and stepped up attacks in Iraq, sources in Tehran tell Newsmax. The coordination between the Iranian regime and Hezbollah was so close that Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah dispatched a personal envoy to brief Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran last week, just as his fighters were encircling the prime minister’s residence in downtown Beirut late Thursday night.
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