Geagea Backs Aoun: Lebanon Must Act Now — Hezbollah Must Surrender Its Weapons
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea amplifies President Joseph Aoun’s landmark call for Hezbollah disarmament and a permanent end to Iranian interference, warning that words must be converted into concrete state action.
Key Takeaways
- President Aoun has called for Hezbollah to surrender its weapons and rejected Iran’s use of Lebanon as a negotiating card with the United States.
- PM Nawaf Salam echoes these demands, backed by broad ministerial, parliamentary, and popular support.
- Geagea says cabinet decisions of Aug. 5–7, 2025 and March 2, 2026 must be enforced — including expulsion of the Iranian ambassador.
- Iran’s Revolutionary proxy model has inflicted decades of war and instability on Lebanese soil, in violation of the constitution and the national will.
- Lebanon’s escape from the cycle of war requires translating presidential words into state action — immediately.
Samir Geagea, the leader of the Lebanese Forces, has issued a powerful statement backing the position of President Joseph Aoun, who has publicly demanded that Hezbollah surrender its weapons and called on Iran to cease using Lebanon as a bargaining chip in its diplomatic negotiations with the United States.
Geagea declared that the positions expressed by President Aoun represent the highest legitimate authority of the Lebanese state — affirming its sovereignty and the genuine interests of its people — and described them as evidence of a clear presidential will to permanently end the aberrant reality that Lebanon has endured for decades.
“These statements come from the highest legitimate authority in the country, representing the Lebanese state, its sovereignty, and the interests of its people.”— Samir Geagea, Lebanese Forces Leader
A Unified Government Front
Geagea emphasized that President Aoun’s positions are not isolated stances but part of a cohesive state posture. Prime Minister Judge Nawaf Salam has equally reiterated his rejection of Iranian intervention, his unwavering commitment to the Lebanese constitution, the extension of state authority across all Lebanese territory, and the preservation of national sovereignty and stability — a posture that enjoys broad ministerial, parliamentary, and popular support across Lebanon’s political landscape.
Together, according to Geagea, these declarations reflect a unified and unambiguous Lebanese will to build an effective, capable, and genuinely sovereign state — one that is directed explicitly at the two parties that continue to treat Lebanon as a theater for their own regional projects in direct contradiction to the will of the Lebanese people: Iran and Hezbollah.
Iran’s Decades-Long Proxy Strategy
Geagea was unsparing in his historical indictment of the Iranian regime’s conduct on Lebanese soil. He noted that there has never been a problem between the Lebanese and Iranian peoples at the human level. However, since the Iranian Revolution, he argued, the Iranian regime has deliberately and systematically used Lebanon as an instrument of its regional project — arming, financing, and organizing a military proxy force outside the framework of Lebanon’s constitution, its laws, and the national will of its citizens.
“The Iranian regime has deliberately used Lebanon as a card in its regional project, arming and organizing a military proxy on Lebanese soil outside the framework of the constitution, the law, and the national will — thereby inflicting grave damage on Lebanon, its people, its economy, and its stability.”— Samir Geagea
This policy, Geagea stressed, has inflicted grave damage on Lebanon — devastating its people, collapsing its economy, and keeping the country an open arena for external conflicts and wars that serve neither Lebanese interests nor the Lebanese people.
Hezbollah’s Weapons: A Flagrant Violation
Turning specifically to Hezbollah, Geagea reaffirmed that the existence of any armed force outside the framework of the Lebanese state constitutes a flagrant violation of the constitution and the law. He noted that President Aoun himself had emphasized the principle of the state’s monopoly on arms in his inauguration oath — a principle enshrined again in the ministerial statement and confirmed through cabinet decisions on August 5 and 7, 2025, and again on March 2, 2026.
Geagea characterized these repeated affirmations as evidence of genuine presidential determination to press forward on the path of disarmament, and praised Aoun’s latest stance as decisive: Lebanon, the president declared, can no longer bear the deadly pendulum that has swung between war and ceasefire, sovereignty and occupation, for decades.
What Must Happen Now
Geagea laid out a clear sequence of demands. From Iran, he called for a permanent and unconditional cessation of all interference in Lebanese domestic affairs and a full respect for the sovereignty and independent decision-making of the Lebanese state. From Hezbollah, he called for an immediate response to the will of the Lebanese state: the surrender of all weapons, the dissolution of its military and security apparatus, and the definitive end of its armed project.
“If Iran insists on the same policy, then the government is called upon to put its decisions into actual implementation — beginning with the expulsion of the Iranian ambassador and extending to the enforcement of decisions regarding the state’s monopoly on arms.”— Samir Geagea
Should Iran refuse to change course, Geagea warned, the Lebanese government bears an obligation to begin implementing its own decisions in letter and in spirit — starting with the expulsion of the Iranian ambassador from Lebanese territory and proceeding with the full enforcement of the state’s monopoly on arms and the extension of sovereign state authority to every corner of the country.
A Critical Juncture for Lebanese Sovereignty
Geagea concluded with a stark summation: Lebanon cannot extricate itself from the cycle of wars and chaos except by converting the words of President Aoun and the formal decisions of the Lebanese government into concrete, immediate, and enforceable action. The alternative — continued inaction in the face of Iran’s proxy presence and Hezbollah’s armed status — is, in his view, no longer tenable.
The statement represents one of the most forceful calls to action yet from Lebanon’s traditional sovereigntist political bloc, and aligns Lebanese Forces squarely behind the presidency at what many observers describe as a pivotal moment in Lebanon’s long struggle to reclaim its statehood from the grip of armed non-state actors and foreign powers.
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