The Lebanese sports minister George Kallas held on Tuesday a ceremony to honor the Lebanese athlete Charbel Abu Daher who rejected to compete with an Israeli rival in UAE’s MMA competitions as well as the rest of the Lebanese team for achieving great results.
During his visit to the ministry in Beirut, Iranian cultural advisor in Lebanon Komail Baqer insisted on meeting with the Lebanese MMA athlete Abou Daher to congratulate him on his anti-normalization stance.
Baqer also discussed with sports minister George Kallas cooperation between the two countries.
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah greeted in his Monday’s speech Fawaz and Abou Daher.
“Our bets are placed on youths like Charbel Abou Daher and Nadia Fawaz who refused to face Israeli contenders,” Sayyed Nasrallah said, hailing their courage amid some Arab’s bowing to ‘Israel’. “We had no problem in developing Lebanon’s relations, especially with Arab states, but some sides want to turn Lebanon into an inferior, we reject this,” he implied.
Source: Al-Manar English Website
