The recent natural gas discoveries in the eastern Mediterranean Sea are stirring the pot of regional turmoil and are provoking different reactions from all the players. It looks as if the region is on the verge of facing a very volatile and highly complicated situation.

Lebanon has an unresolved maritime border with Occupied Palestine [Israel] that involves a triangular sea area of about 860 square km extending along the edge of three of its 10 offshore energy blocks.

Today, the Zionist regime is gradually increasing its wicked attempts to claim Lebanon’s significant deposits of natural gas in the Mediterranean Sea.

Iran has always condemned the Zionist regime and its regional accomplices for concocting plans to loot the Lebanese natural wealth and foment civil war in Lebanon.

According to previous reports Israel seeks to explore and then supply the European countries with the newly discovered natural gas reserves by a subsea pipeline. The volume of this project, according to energy experts, is expected to produce over 10 billion cubic meters of gas per year, which can bring a huge income for the Zionist regime.

If fulfilled, the Zionist regime will gain bargaining power in the European Union and will be able to attract the EU’s technical facilities and capacities.

With the launch of this Israeli pipeline, the energy hub in Europe will rotate towards Tel Aviv, and Israel will gain the power to sally into the political equations in the Mediterranean with greater strength.

But one thing will certainly destroy Israeli dark dreams: Hezbollah.

Hezbollah has repeatedly vowed to defend Lebanon’s maritime sovereignty against Tel Aviv’s insidious menace.

Although the Lebanese government and Hezbollah insist that Lebanon won’t start a war, the prospects of an end to the row dim amid reports that Israel is preparing to start drilling in natural gas fields in another disputed area of eastern Mediterranean, despite previous UN-brokered agreements

Recently, Hezbollah Executive Council Deputy Chief Sheikh Ali Da’mush has warned that the U.S. seeks to bring a government in Lebanon that would be under its control and implement Washington’s agendas. For example, it wants Lebanon to agree to the demarcation of borders ((based on Israel’s wishes)), grant projects for oil and gas extractions to American companies and permanently house the displaced Palestinian people.