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Rubio accuses Hezbollah of ‘trying to drag Lebanon back into chaos and destruction’
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Hezbollah supporters carry the Iran-backed terror group's flag while they ride a motorcycle past destruction, upon their return to their neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs, after a 10-day ceasefire with Israel came into effect, April 17, 2026. (Fadel Itani/AFP)
NEW DELHI, India — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio accuses Hezbollah in a statement of trying to plunge Lebanon “back into chaos.”
Rubio denounces what he called Hezbollah’s “reckless call to overthrow Lebanon’s democratically elected government” and says the Iran-backed terror group was “actively trying to drag Lebanon back into chaos and destruction.”
Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
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