BEIRUT (Dispatches) -- A Lebanese lawmaker has broken ranks with his staunchly pro-American political party, thanking Iran for dispatching much-need fuel shipments to the Arab country, which grappling with a severe energy crisis, upon a request by the Hezbollah resistance movement. In an interview with Al-Mayadeen, Cesar Maalouf, a member of parliament for the Lebanese Forces, chaired by senior Christian figure Samir Geagea, extended his gratitude to the “brotherly country” of Iran for “helping the Lebanese people” at a time when other countries have abandoned them.