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Lebanese prime minister suggests he fears for his life, resigns
There's little room left for Lebanon to kick the Hezbollah can down the road. The Shia terrorist organization (with huge assistance from Iran) is militarily far more powerful than the Lebanese government.
This is what happens when tyranny is allowed to fester and metastasize.
By Suzan Haidamous and Louisa Loveluck
November 4, 2017
BEIRUT — Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigned from office Saturday in a surprise announcement that shook the country’s fragile politics and suggested deeper instability could follow. In a televised address from the Saudi capital, Riyadh, Hariri accused Iran of creating a “state within a state” inside Lebanon, a reference to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement, which wields significant power over the fractured government. Hariri’s resignation is expected to sharply raise tensions in a country where politics have often been overshadowed by those in its much larger neighbor, Syria. It also highlights the power struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which both have interests and allies in Lebanon. In a pointed speech, Hariri suggested that he feared for his life and said the atmosphere in Lebanon is similar to the one that existed before his father, the late Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri, was assassinated in 2005 after resigning from office. “I refer explicitly and unequivocally to Iran, which sows sedition, devastation and destruction in any place it settles in,” he said. “The evil that Iran spreads in the region will backfire on it.”
There's little room left for Lebanon to kick the Hezbollah can down the road. The Shia terrorist organization (with huge assistance from Iran) is militarily far more powerful than the Lebanese government.
This is what happens when tyranny is allowed to fester and metastasize.