A group of Lebanese MPs and political figures announced on Tuesday that they had filed a legal complaint with the judiciary and public prosecutor against Hezbollah’s deputy secretary-general, Naim Qassem, over remarks they deemed “a threat to civil peace and incitement of sectarian tensions.”

The “Sovereign Front” held an emergency meeting in Ashrafieh, stressing that Qassem’s statements “expose Lebanon to the danger of civil war” at a time when the country is seeking to end what it described as “Iranian hegemony and the chaos of weapons.”