me to Lebanon on August 5 to meet people, many politicians didn’t seem to bother. While some port officials have reportedly been detained, there are questions about how an investigation will unfold.
There have been a few Middle Eastern pundits, inevitably, who've blamed the explosion on Israel or America, but somehow their hearts don't seem to be in it. It's too hard a sell, even to an audience accustomed to hear about the evil machinations of the Zionist entity and the Great Satan. The incompetence of the Lebanese authorities is too obvious.
Iran, Hezbollah's backer, has meanwhile had very little to say.
Tasnim news on Saturday was more concerned with US sanctions, a protest by Iran about US fighters jets intercepting an Iranian passenger plane and exchange rates. Not so much about Lebanon. Fars News also didn’t have many details about the blast. There was a report about Lebanon’s foreign minister praising Hezbollah head Hassan-Nasrallah and details about the Mozambique company that had purchased the ammonium nitrate that exploded in Beirut. There was less about how the blast might affect Iran, Iranians in Lebanon or even Hezbollah, a key Iranian ally.
So what is going on with Iran’s regime and its reaction to the blast? The regime seems more interested in a few petty details or ignoring the destruction entirely….
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