Jordan, Syria to expel Envoys in Diplomatic Tit-For-Tat
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Syria is to expel Jordan's charge d'affaires, in a tit-for-tat move hours after Amman gave the Syrian ambassador 24 hours to leave the kingdom, state-run television said Monday.
"The Syrian foreign ministry will order the expulsion of the Jordanian charge d'affaires to Damascus, after the Jordanian foreign ministry declared the Syrian ambassador to Amman persona non grata," said Al-Ikhbariya television.
It quoted a foreign ministry statement as saying that the Jordanian charge d'affaires is considered by Damascus persona non grata.
"In response to the Jordanian government's baseless decision to declare the Syrian ambassador to Amman persona non grata, the Syrian government has decided to declare the Jordanian charge d'affaires in Damascus persona non grata," said the ministry.
Earlier, Jordan's foreign ministry spokeswoman Sabah Rafi said Syrian ambassador Bahjat Suleiman's expulsion came after "repeated insults to Jordan and its leadership, institutions and citizens, through his meetings, writings and social media websites."
Rafi said the government in Jordan, which is hosting hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Syrian conflict, had "repeatedly warned Suleiman not to exploit Jordanian hospitality."
"Suleiman used Jordan as a platform to question its positions and make false accusations and allegations against the kingdom," she said.
"He also used Jordan to directly insult brotherly and neighboring Arab countries and insult their leaderships."
Last year, Suleiman attacked Jordan for hosting a meeting of Syria's opposition backers, the so-called Friends of Syria.
He has also in the past described the around 600,000 refugees in Jordan as "terrorists".
26 May 2014, 14:35
711
Well done Jordan, any country with self respect will do the same.
26 May 2014, 14:39
711
It is great to be a sovereign nation like Jordan. They got all their land back from Israel. So have the Egyptians without a so called "resistance".
Lebanon is still under Iranian Islamo-fascist occupation and cannot kick out the ever interfering Syrian ambassador.
If we were a sovereign nation we would have given the Syrian ambassador to Lebanon, a clean shaven Bashar worshiper, the boot a long time ago!
26 May 2014, 14:54
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Machia!!! you are just plain stupid! Jordan lost the west bank and Jerusalem to Israel, and inherited millions of refugees (amounting to about 70% of its current population). Egypt fought violent wars against Israel, Camp David would have been impossible without those wars. The only Fascists are you and your ilk!
26 May 2014, 15:13
710
Hassan Nasrallah is no man at all sending young brainwashed Shia in Syria to fight for lies.
He said he would fight himself. Instead, he's hiding underground while hundreds of lebanese shia youth are being buried every month ! What a waste !
26 May 2014, 15:20
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You've got a point FlameCatcher! Nasrallah is underground and gives fiery speeches the way Michel Aoun used to give fiery speeches before he escaped to the French embassy leaving his wife, kids and army behind.
Cowardly attraction! Cowards in love! Cowards in arms!
26 May 2014, 15:36
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just like you southern were never concerned when your beloved syria killed innocent lebanese and opponents to your beloved regime...
your resistance is just a big hypocrisy and a farce that only weak people believe....
26 May 2014, 15:56
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@Southern : You can only call it a sacrifice if you know what you are sacrificing your life for. Those idiots you call martyrs do not know why they "gave" their lives. They dies stupidly to keep Bachar in Power. No benefit to Lebanon!
Therefore, they are not martyrs and they died stupidly !
And your Hassan Nasrallah is no more "hiding" than Saad el Hariri who's affraid you will murder him like you did his father !
26 May 2014, 16:02
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Hey Southern, you underground bearded Islamo fascist leader decided to wage war on his Islamo Nazi ex-brothers in arm in Syria and the bombs came and hit his "labayk-Nasrullah" crowd. Why should it concern me? It is not my war, Dahyie is not part of my country.
26 May 2014, 16:03
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Hey Southern, your underground bearded Islamo fascist leader decided to wage war on his Islamo Nazi ex-brothers in arm in Syria and the bombs came and hit his "labayk-Nasrullah" crowd. Why should it concern me? It is not my war, Dahyie is not part of my country.
26 May 2014, 16:23
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Unfortunately not. But anytime in a Tel Aviv cafe better than a Cafe in Dahie.
The Islamic Republic of Iran, Bashar and his worshipers and Hezbollah and their massacres of civilians make Israel look like a dove.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Misb_Q7_1c
26 May 2014, 17:05
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@Southern : Dayhé is part of Southern Iran right according to Hezbollah ?
26 May 2014, 15:15
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Better a US puppet than an Iranian one!
Jordan's King cares for his country and is doing his best along with his government to grow his country's economy.
26 May 2014, 15:56
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Aha Tilt Bingo ChingChing!
Yes in the world today you are either with Iran-Assad Regime-Hezbollah-North Korea-China and Russia (the fascists) or you are with the West (the good guys).
So you wanna live in Amrika and love it but support The Islamic Republic of Iran and Kim Jong-un.
A very Aounist kind of mental health dichotomy.
26 May 2014, 16:46
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"I love american freedoms, inventions, technology, music, and many other cultural things from america...but i dont love american foreign policy"
Ok so you must hate the islamic republic of Iran's repression of freedoms, ban on pop music and you must also hate the Assad regime's repression of freedom and massacre of civilians but you loooooooove their foreign policy!
Aoun really messed you up!
26 May 2014, 15:16
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the strong man is the one who can make peace, as doing war is easy.
we hope one day we will be liberated from the tyranny of those invading us currently (i.e. the Iranians), and then we would be able to follow suit and kick out this terrorist Syrian ambassador.
26 May 2014, 17:51
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The "divine" party wants war...war to liberate Jerusalem and what is beyond...beyond...Jerusalem! This means generations of suuferings for the Lebanese people...
The choice is not obligatory ....it is whether you like it or not...DEMOCRACY is a new word for them!!!
26 May 2014, 15:17
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look how prompt and fast M8ers come here to defend syria whenever they are attacked...and insult jordan because they expelled their pimp's ambassador!
it only shows how faithful they are to this dictatorship regime... their capital lies in damascus, not beirut....
27 May 2014, 00:09
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Jordan is also a dictatorship so let's not praise it just because we agree with them expelling the bashar envoy. They too torture, they too dont allow free media or freeeom of speach.
27 May 2014, 00:23
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it is not the problem but rather to see how upset M8ers are because the syrian ambassador was expelled...it proves how much the syrian regime is something you cannot discuss about because it is their beloved model of society...
26 May 2014, 15:17
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You mean "beoble" right?
Za Beoble hate Amrika and lovez Jumhuri-ye Eslami-e Iran!
26 May 2014, 16:20
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FT. so you think that our "resisting" policies put us in better shape than jordan?
Jordan was traditionally the poorest arab country. Today it went up notches because of its policies, while traditionally rich lebanon is going down because of our bogus "resistance" and state within a state.
So Hariri came to lebanon, and consecrated Saudi hegemony over lebanon, in fact ending a maronite rule that lasted 50 years. I hate that, but lets get over it. At least Official Saudi Arabia brings stability and work to lebanon, and is way better than being under iran, the pariah of international order who has even less respect for lebanon's sovereignty, and uses us as a pawn to advance its interests.
So jordan's policies are 100 times better than ours. I in fact envy them for their policies.
26 May 2014, 17:11
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FT. yes I mean economically. Because stability, jobs creation and prosperity are the most important parameters of modern society.
We are not living in subordination to israel. Right. But we ended up living in subordination to HA. I find it way more humiliating to become a second class citizen under this pasdaran milicia than to do a peace deal with the zionists.
Our ancestors built Lebanon apple after apple, olive after olive, and today we are the subject to the decisions that take place in phone calls that take place between dahieh and teheran. This is what subordination and shame is about.
26 May 2014, 15:27
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insults comes also when we try to bribe a country or pay money for politicians to influence them ,....
26 May 2014, 15:40
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Interesting profile on this Bashar worshiper and torturer, Bahjat Suleiman: http://syrianobserver.com/Government/Gov_Who/Bahjat+Sulaiman+The+New+Old+Guard
26 May 2014, 15:43
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Btw his son Majd Suleiman is the partner of Bashar Kiwan and they own Al Waseet and Al Balad newspaper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rita_awi
26 May 2014, 16:00
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US puppet, Iranian puppet, I really don't know which is worst !
All I know is that in the US, women are free and you can speak your mind without getting beaten or stoned to death.
In Iran, you get jailed for removing your veil and expressing how happy you are !
26 May 2014, 16:59
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Thank you for you auto-derision ! I respect that ! I always said that about you ! Your double standard binary view of the world is what makes Lebanon and most particularly M8 sheep primitive !
26 May 2014, 16:09
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Southern your HA that was here when you were in lebanon is long gone. The HA that liberated the south is long gone. You see lebanon through media, and have a idealistic view.
Today HA morphed into a regional powerful milicia that terrorizes lebanese investors, that terrorizes free shia thinkers, and that terrorizes syrian peasants more than it terrorizes israelis.
HA is no more the underdog fighting israel that you remember and cherish. It became a filthy milicia.
26 May 2014, 16:16
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Jordan's king dont fool his people under a fake 'resistance' slogan.
Saladin, Tarik Ibn Ziad, Mehmet Fatih made agreement with their enemies, no harm in that. Problem is with the scumbags using palestinian cause/israel threat to keep power and weapons...
26 May 2014, 19:29
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better visas to israel than fake resistance and syro iranian occupation.
Defeat is part of the game, we lost, they won, they have 300 nuclear warheads, lets try to get the best deal with them and the best army in case they get too greedy...
Jordan and Saudi kings are building their countries, they love their people and their people love them.
They dont do scuds, sarins, etc...
26 May 2014, 22:01
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Yes bravo Cedre, admit to everyone that you hate Shias more than Israelis. That's what we want you Salafis to admit, and you just did it wlo.
26 May 2014, 23:39
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Lie all u want mastic, i dont mind ur taqiya...
But u're right in comparing farsi and zionist expansionism, very similar indeed...
27 May 2014, 00:20
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Cedre come on. The bedouin king of jordan is a dictator with better PR than Assad that is qll. Please don't compare what salahuddin did to what jordan did. Salahuddin defeated his enemies and then made peace with them. Jordan helped the enemy win and then signed a "peace deal" giving israel everything they want. That was not a peace deal, it was a zionist plan. The so called king of jordan is not even from jordan, he is hijazi and his mother is british. Jordan was never supposed to be a seperate country, britain created it as part of their zionist plan. Tell me brother, did salahuddin live in a castle? Did he have a hijab-less wife spending bribe and aid money on designer clothes while people are poor? Look at how they treat syrian refugees in jordan, its a disgrace! This "king" and his fellows have more in comon with assad than they are different. La3anhom Allah tnayneton.
26 May 2014, 16:26
42
Poor Syria. They are such victims of the evil west. When will the evil west leave these peace loving people alone. All they want to is oppress and murder Syrians and Lebanese in peace and this stupid evil west will not let them be. Whyyyyyyy?
26 May 2014, 16:34
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Syria is not evil but the Assad regime is. Jordan and its King are indeed very good. Good for his people, good for his economy. Bashar massacres his people and destroyed Syria.
As for this thing about Amrika and Israeeeel give me a break, the fascists from every sects in the Middle East have used this excuse to fill their pockets with money and their hands with blood.
26 May 2014, 17:35
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we all know that you thanked syria for the destructions of lebanese villages and torture of thousands... not to mention those killed in syrian prison, but all out of brotherly love to you subhuman FPMers...
but seems you forgive them for that and even defend them now... how stupid can FPMers be....
what did jordan do to Lebanon? nothing but still you spit on it just to defend your pimp bashar! LOL see how DERANGED you are? piece of trash....
26 May 2014, 18:56
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Thanks to GCC and Jordan do gooders Lebanon was reconstructed. Thanks to GCC and Jordan do gooders thousand of Lebanese families are making honest money.
What have Bashar and Hafez worshipers and the Islamic Republic of Iran given us except death, destruction and theft.
How they are using the Islamo Nazis to fight the Islamo Fascists and Bashar worshipers in Syria is their problem not mine.
After all the Islamic Republic of Iran used the Islamo Nazis in Iraq and Lebanon for its own purposes, (as an example remember how Hassan Nasrallah freed Omar Bakri from prison http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-11832083).
26 May 2014, 16:35
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Syria is not evil but the Assad regime is. Jordan and its King are indeed very good. Good for his people, good for his economy. Bashar massacres his people and destroyed Syria.
As for this thing about Amrika and Israeeeel give me a break, the fascists from every sect in the Middle East have used this excuse to fill their pockets with money and their hands with blood.
26 May 2014, 17:37
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Oh yes southern. Syria is standing up against these terrible policies and doing the right by the people of the world. How delusional are you? You support a regime responsible for murder, rape and pillaging of your own country, just not your sect, so it's ok? Where's all this patriotism you speak of? You must have a different definition of the word.
26 May 2014, 17:54
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Aoun is NOT a terrorist..he is only mad...!!! Truly and honestly mad!!!
26 May 2014, 21:22
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The sad thing is that he is taking his followers towards collective suicide the way Jim Jones did in Guyana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones
26 May 2014, 21:19
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Southern, you like "Ze Amrikan Beoble" but do not like "Amrikan foreign Bolicy"...Good for you...
But the Islamo fascist Republic of Iran liked, clapped and helped "ze Amerikan" invade Iraq.
The rest I guess you learned in the Islamo Fascist history books that are given to you in Hezbollah backed schools. Amrika is bad but ze beoble are good. Aslem Taslam.
I praise those schools because its pupils are all great inventors, writers and scientists that are shining the world over unlike Amrikan schools and universities that graduate Amrikan marines and evil boliticians.
26 May 2014, 22:02
51
Jordan is part of Greater Israel already, it is not a sovereign state. That they expel the Ambassador of Syria comes as no suprise, i'm amazed it did not happen before.
27 May 2014, 00:10
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You got it wrong buddy, the great Islamo fascist republic of Iran is claiming to be expanding to our shores:http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/05/15/former-irgc-leader-claims-irans-border-to-lebanons-shores.
Anyhow Israel has great universities, great scientists, great medicine, great musicians, a great financial system. While the Islamic Republic of Iran has .... can someone help here "blease???!!!!" Ze great Amrikan Gonsbiracy took everything from Joumhouri-ye Islami-ye Irani.
27 May 2014, 06:42
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"israelis enter jordan without visas, jordanians need humiliating visa procedures to get into israel.
Change Israelis to - Lebanese, Syrians Iranians
Change Jordanians to - Americans, British,
What's the difference?
27 May 2014, 07:20
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Lebanon should expel the Saudi ambassador for espionage and the promotion of terrorism.
