Newspaper Secrets on 25-05-2026

Al-Nahar

Following the announcement of progress in the negotiations between the United States and Iran, and the near conclusion of an agreement on Saturday-Sunday night, the sound of heavy gunfire was heard in the southern suburb of Beirut in celebration of the news, and the area witnessed a morning rush by residents to check on their homes.

A Beirut MP is increasing his appearances and public meetings in neighborhoods and cafes after opinion polls showed him that people do not feel his closeness to them except on the eve of elections.

The case of the association operating in Belgium under the name "Church of Unity" is still escalating after its custodians issued fake decisions regarding Lebanese bishops and relieving them of their duties. It was learned in this context that a legal file is being prepared by a group of human rights activists to sue these Lebanese individuals on several charges, most notably impersonation and defamation, to request their arrest upon entering Lebanon and also to pursue them abroad.

A judge was heard telling his son in the presence of attendees: If you choose to be a real judge like your father, you have vowed poverty.

The path of the general amnesty file is becoming increasingly strained with the escalation of the movement of the families of the martyred soldiers rejecting clemency for the killers of their sons. They distributed "Ranger" military boots in the Parliament square to remind deputies of their cause.

Nidaa Al-Watan

In the opinion of political sources, the escalatory rhetoric of Naim Qassem yesterday could complicate the inclusion of the cessation of hostilities in Lebanon within the anticipated framework memorandum between Washington and Tehran, and the result is that military operations may threaten the fate of the city of Nabatieh in the future.

A former security official decided to postpone the printing of his memoirs, which he completed some time ago. The reason for the postponement is due to developments related to former security officials, as what was mentioned in those memoirs may affect the files related to them.

Red wax seals were removed from a building in the Bekaa that was listed in the file concerning the former General Security official from the Shukr family, who was kidnapped by Israel. The reasons for removing the red wax seals are unknown, although the mystery of Shukr's kidnapping has not yet been solved.

Al-Liwaa

Some circles are promoting that the Minister of Interior issued a decision exempting owners of vehicles damaged in Israeli raids from bearing customs fees for their replacement cars, whether new or used!

Lebanese parties are trying to drag the Syrian regime into the disputes over the stalled amnesty law bill under the pretext of defending the case of Sheikh Ahmed Al-Assir, while Damascus has assured everyone of its keenness not to interfere in internal Lebanese affairs!

Speaker Nabih Berri was surprised by the American sanctions that targeted some of his close associates, at a time when he hears repeated diplomatic appreciation for the role he plays, both in terms of confronting attempts at sedition and in terms of smoothing over angles in the positions of the Shiite duo!

Al-Binaa

Secrets:

A political reference said: Why do Presidents Joseph Aoun and Nawaf Salam limit their objection to the US-Iranian draft agreement and its handling of the Lebanon file behind the back of the government and the ruling authority to the Iranian side, while the official and media discussion within a large part of the authority focused all the time on Iran as "interfering in Lebanon" or "negotiating on its behalf" or "linking Lebanon to a regional axis"? But at the moment of announcing the headings of the agreement, it turned out that the first party in the negotiation was the United States itself, and that Washington practically accepted the inclusion of Lebanon within the basket of understandings, without actual official Lebanese presence at the decision table. Here the question becomes legitimate: If considering Iran "negotiating on behalf of Lebanon" is presented as an infringement on sovereignty, why is the same question not raised about Washington? And why do we not hear an official Lebanese statement saying that the United States, the declared ally, friend, and partner of the authority, and the sponsor of the Lebanese-Israeli negotiation, negotiated on Lebanon's security, borders, ceasefire, and southern arrangements without its participation or consultation?

Backstage

A former security reference who accompanied the Israeli withdrawal in 2000 said that the continuation of the occupation in the buffer zone is impossible if a ceasefire is established, except for rugged and uninhabited areas, because the announcement of a ceasefire and the absence of any exceptions, as is currently the case, will mean the rush of tens of thousands of southerners to their villages and towns and the pitching of tents in place of their destroyed homes. This will make the Israeli presence impossible among people in cities like Khiam and Bint Jbeil and towns like Aita al-Shaab and Aitaroun. The inevitable withdrawal from these cities and towns will lead to a repeat of the human march into all border villages, collapse the idea of a geographically contiguous buffer zone, and make the points where the occupation remains isolated points that can be added to the points pending since 2000 without posing an existential threat to Lebanon or a strategic change in favor of "Israel".