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<for the record> When Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met with the Lebanese leader Saad Hariri in 2010 in Tehran, Hariri wanted to talk about the disarmament of Hezbollah.
Khamenei asked Hariri if he had read Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Hariri had not.
Khamenei told him that the character Esmeralda always carried a knife or a dagger to protect herself. Esmeralda is wanted, just as Lebanon is, by everyone, including Israel.
Hezbollah, Khamenei said, is Esmeralda's dagger. Why would you want to remove it from her?
