A delegation of the Cyprus Intelligence Service led by its Deputy Director arrived earlier today in the capital Beirut to meet with Lebanon's Director General of General Security, Major General Elias al-Baysari as well as several other senior Lebanese officials.
The reason; Of course the serious threats made recently by the Secretary General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah.
Cyprus gives assurances that it is not going to give bases to Israel to carry out airstrikes in Lebanon.
But the Hezbollah leader's threat and the recent exercises of the Russian Army in Tartus and Latakia show that "something else" is happening behind the scenes.
Hence the recent exercises of the Russian and Syrian Army in the Golan Heights and in the country's ports where they activated all the anti-ship missile arrays as well as the S-400 and S-300 anti-aircraft systems.
This is the possibility of the Israel-Hezbollah war becoming general involving thousands of pro-Iranian Shia forces and involving Syria.
There are already "crazy numbers" of Shiites who want to help Hezbollah in the coming war. From Yemen and Iran to Syria.
In such a case, indeed Israel will need the help of Cyprus.
There is something else that the political leaders of Cyprus never predicted (or simply did not want):
The question now is not what Hezbollah wants but what Iran, Russia and Turkey want in the region.
NATO will not protect Cyprus in the event of an attack by Hezbollah: In an interview he gave to the American network CNN, the head of the alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, made statements about the recent threats from the Lebanese armed organization Hezbollah.
Stoltenberg emphasized that Cyprus is not a member of NATO, implying that it does not enjoy the protection of the North Atlantic alliance.
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