Tag: Sa’ad Hariri

"The country is collapsing before us and the people are doomed!"

"The Lebanese are staying behind and launching fiery statements that will achieve nothing,” Minister Steinitz said.

Late Saturday afternoon, Hezbollah counter-protesters arrived from the Shiite-dominated part of the city, and clashed with the anti-government protesters.

The World Bank has warned this week that Lebanon's failure to quickly form a government that meets protesters' demands would likely cause an even faster failure of the local economy.

The problem, however, is that it takes months in Lebanon to form a coalition government; last time, it took Hariri nine months to do it.

Saying he had "reached a dead end," Hariri added, "No one is bigger than the nation."

Lebanon's Red Cross Tweeted that three wounded protesters had been hospitalized.

The decision was reportedly made Friday at a meeting between Hariri and Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun.

“This government is incapable of taking the necessary steps to save the worsening economic and financial situation in Lebanon."

One protester says he wishes the Jews were ruling over Lebanon.

He famously sobbed in 2006 as he described the effects of the war on the Lebanese people during a televised address at the conference.

Seriously? The secretary must be aware that in Lebanon, government institutions, armed forces and internal security are all run or substantially influenced by Hezbollah.

Nevertheless, the United States applauded the development.

PM-designate Hariri said the international community must "curb this escalation in the interest in the respect for the Blue Line and the full implementation of Resolution 1701."

Israel's response to a Hezbollah offensive, the spokesman warned, would target the southern Beirut suburbs of Dahieh, a Hezbollah stronghold that was attacked by Israel during the 2006 war.

IDF spokesperson in Arabic Avichay Adraee tweeted a message directed at Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri Wednesday: “You have said these things about ...

Prime Minister-designate Sa’ad Hariri, however, has declined to allocate any cabinet seats to Sunni allies of Hezbollah, regardless of Nasrallah's demands.

Hariri is considered Lebanon's leading Sunni politician.

Hariri: Assad didn't win in Syria. Putin and Rouhani won.

Both Macron and el-Sissi have been engaged in efforts to put the resigned PM back in power in Lebanon.

France wants to keep Israel up-to-speed with developments in Lebanon.

Even Hezbollah has called on Hariri to return; his flight from the country threw Lebanon into a political crisis that has paralyzed the government.

"We cannot continue in Lebanon in a situation where Iran interferes in all Arab countries, and there's a political faction that interferes along with it."

Hezbollah lawmakers called on Saudi Arabia to stop interfering in Lebanese affairs.

Saudi Arabia has promised its ally, the United States, it will fight Iran's attempts to create chaos in the region.

Within hours of the dismissals, the Saudi military intercepted a ballistic missile over Riyadh.

“Iran is driven by deep hatred for the Arab nation. Unfortunately, it has found some of our sons who are putting their hands in its and trying to seize Lebanon from its Arab surroundings."

Former Lebanese PM Sa'ad Hariri is returning to power at the head of a wall-to-wall government coalition, hoping to hold Syria, Hezbollah and Iran at bay.

Lebanon has elected a new president, Maronite Christian Michel Aoun, age 81. Former PM Sa'ad Hariri rejoins him for a second time around.