Lebanese prime minister suggests he fears for his life, resigns

Lebanese prime minister suggests he fears for his life, resigns

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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.”

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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.

Rogue Valley said:

Lebanese prime minister suggests he fears for his life, resigns

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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.

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Syria and Iran are well known for their realizing changing of Lebanese management with great brutality.

Exclusive: How Saudi Arabia turned on Lebanon's Hariri

Apparently, the Saudis intend to hold Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri under house arrest in Riyadh until his older brother Bahaa is appointed to take his place.

The Saudis are tired of Saad Hariri not forcefully confronting Hezbollah. It seems the Saudi's under Crown Prince Salman intend to be more confrontational with Iran and Hezbollah.

What seems to be the final straw was Shia Houthi militants in Yemen firing a Scud missile at Riyadh airport last week which was intercepted. The Saudis say this was an act of war by Tehran.

Yemen is in a state of civil war and the Saudis and other GCC members like the UAE are attacking and blockading Yemen; turning a bad situation into a humanitarian disaster involving famine and epidemic levels of disease. The Scud was launched by renegade Yemen military personnel fighting on behalf of the Houthi cause and in response to Saudi and mercenary attacks against the Houthi controlled areas of Yemen. The Saudis and US "advisors" intercepted the missile attack. The US is supporting the Saudis and is participating in the invasion both directly and indirectly. They justify this by invoking the dual spectres of al Qaeda and ISIL operating in Yemen. The al-Qaeda controlled areas are not in the Houthi controlled areas and are not being supported by Iran but rather by the Saudis. Aside from a string of small boat smuggling of weapons and munitions from Iran to Yemen there is little evidence of comprehensive Iranian involvement in the Yemeni civil war aside from cheerleading and offering moral and humanitarian support.

And yet you claim that Iran is behind the Scud attack and ignore the fact that the renegade Yemeni military themselves possess the missiles and rockets which are being used to fight the Saudi backed forces fighting in Yemen, while at the same time ignoring the American, British and French provided munitions (including cluster-bombs and aerial mine dispensers) which are raining death down on innocent Yemeni civilian heads daily as a result of Saudi and UAE air sorties.

Saudi Arabia is trying to impose a serially ousted and unpopular leader on Yemen. Saudi Arabia has invaded and attacked Yemen for three years now. Saudi Arabia is trying to engineer a coup d'etat in Lebanon to annoy Hezbollah and destabilise another Middle Eastern country trying to manage a tenuous peace between its internal factions. Saudi Arabia is the biggest financial supporter of terrorism in the greater Middle East and North Africa. Saudi Arabia is supporting oppressive regimes like the el-Sisi junta in Egypt. Saudi Arabia brutalises its own Shi'ite population and executes peaceful religious leaders in that community. Saudi Arabia detains foreign leaders under very suspicious circumstances and holds them while forcing them to publicly resign their posts in their own countries. Saudi Arabia is in the middle of internal purges of its own leadership.

And yet you seem to be determined to blame Iran for this mess. Incroyable, mom ami! C'est tellement fou! (Incredible my friend! It's truely nuts!). Iran is presently ascendant in the Middle East because US and Western policy has destroyed two secular regimes which acted as bulwarks to contain and check Persian and Shi'ite influence in the greater region. This was in reaction to Saudi backed terrorism and Islamist movements which triggered the global war on terror. This is entirely the Saudi's and the West's fault and not Iran's doing.

Cheers.
Evilroddy.

Rogue Valley said:

What seems to be the final straw was Shia Houthi militants in Yemen firing a Scud missile at Riyadh airport last week which was intercepted. The Saudis say this was an act of war by Tehran.

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Evilroddy said:

And yet you claim that Iran is behind the Scud attack and ignore the fact that the renegade Yemeni military themselves possess the missiles and rockets which are being used to fight the Saudi backed forces fighting in Yemen, while at the same time ignoring the American, British and French provided munitions (including cluster-bombs and aerial mine dispensers) which are raining death down on innocent Yemeni civilian heads daily as a result of Saudi and UAE air sorties.

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I didn't claim anything pal. I merely reported what the Saudis publicly stated:

Saudi Arabia calls missile launch 'act of war' by Iran, vows retaliation

If you don't agree with me on some issues, fine. But don't lie about what I post.

Rogue Valley:

What seems to be the final straw was Shia Houthi militants in Yemen firing a Scud missile at Riyadh airport last week which was intercepted. The Saudis say this was an act of war by Tehran.

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Fair enough. I failed to read and grasp the nuance in the quoted statement above. You have my apologies for putting words into your mouth and for not reading your words carefully enough. Sorry about that.

It is however the Saudis which are the venomous spider at the centre of this web of intrigue and disruption which plagues the Middle East and the West allows this to happen for political and economic reasons. It annoys me greatly and when my ire gets up I sometimes jump to conclusions. So sorry for misinterpreting your statements above and for mischaracterising what you said. Mea Culpa!

Rather sheepishly.
Evilroddy.