Mohammad Ali Shabani

You can't have sovereignty with foreign forces on your soil.

That's not sovereignty.

Sovereignty literally is defined as monopoly on violence within your boundaries, your territorial boundaries.

So I think that's the kind of long-term game.

That's what they're looking at down the line.

Again, we don't know

how long these negotiations on the final deal are going to continue.

We know there's a 60-day period, but it says extendable by mutual consent, right?

So we don't have a clear timeline.

What we do know is that the end game is Israel needs to leave Lebanon.

And frankly, I'm not sure whether that's against Israeli interests.

Israel spent 18 years in Lebanon until the early 2000s, and I don't think they want to stay in there.

There's not really much for them there.

They're just exposed right now.

They're facing a lot of difficulties with

Things like these new drones that Hezbollah is firing at them on a daily basis.

It's not a good situation.

I think for Israel, it's much more, how can I put this, advantageous.

to finally launch airstrikes, et cetera, from behind the border, right?

They can do that.