President Michel Sleiman said Thursday that the latest spate of bombings, including the attack on the Iranian Embassy, have confirmed the threat of “strife and imported terrorism” as he implicitly lashed out at Hezbollah over its military intervention in Syria.

“A state of independence cannot be established if Lebanese parties or groups decide to be independent from the logic of the state, or if they accept to depart from the national consensus by deciding to cross the border and get involved in an armed conflict on the land of a brotherly state, thus exposing national unity and civil peace to danger,” the Lebanese president said in a televised speech on the eve of Independence Day.