based Al-Watan said Hezbollah has the right to be involved directly or indirectly in the political process in Lebanon, and at the same time it has the right to maintain friendly relations with Iran. The paper added that the people were taken by surprise when secretary of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah admitted that some of the members of his party were involved in what was branded by the Egyptian prosecutor general as aggressive activities. The admission of Nasrallah was not confined to Sami Shihab, the leader of the cell arrested in Egypt, but it also includes a flagrant political mixture between sovereignty of a great Arab country like Egypt and the policy of a Lebanese political party like Hezbollah.