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US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would speak to Hezbollah if Lebanese President Joseph Aoun asked him to do it, Anadolu reports. Trump said during a meeting with Aoun at the Oval Office that he is willing to engage with people others might oppose speaking to. “I would speak to Hezbollah. I speak to everybody. I’ll speak to people that a lot of people think I shouldn’t be speaking to, and things work out,” said Trump. “I would say this: if the president wanted me to speak to Hezbollah, you know he’s lived with Hezbollah for a long time, and if the president wanted me to speak to Hezbollah, I would.” Asked about a full withdrawal of the […]