A senior US diplomat has said oil-rich Gulf states would be willing to invest up to $10bn to develop southern Lebanon if Hizbollah disarmed and cut its ties to Iran.
Tom Barrack, the billionaire investor who is one of President Donald Trump’s top Middle East envoys, said the Iranian-backed militant movement needed an incentive to disarm.
“If you’re forcing them, it is not a good idea. We know that. With the Lebanese, with Arabs — the pride is something,” Barrack said at a conference in Bahrain “If you entice them and give them an option, maybe that works, but we have to try something.”
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