Hariri Returns to Beirut: Ties with Saudi Won't be Affected by Attempts to Harm Them
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri returned to Beirut overnight from a several-week foreign trip during which he shuttled between Europe and Saudi Arabia.
Hariri had hailed the Lebanese-Saudi relations in an interview with the kingdom's official news agency that coincided with the Saudi National Day.
“The kingdom has always been keen on supporting and assisting the Lebanese, without exceptions, to enable Lebanon to overcome its internal crises and problems and to preserve its security and stability,” Hariri said.
He stressed that the ties between the two countries “will not be affected by the attempts of some parties to harm them through insulting the kingdom's role and distorting its reputation over well-known regional calculations.”
“The majority of Lebanese are keen on the continuation of this relation which is in the interest of the two brotherly countries and peoples,” the ex-PM added.
Lebanon has been without a president since the term of Michel Suleiman ended in May 2014 and Hizbullah, MP Michel Aoun's Change and Reform bloc and some of their allies have been boycotting the parliament's electoral sessions, stripping them of the needed quorum.
Hariri, who is close to Saudi Arabia, launched an initiative in late 2015 to nominate Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh for the presidency but his proposal was met with reservations from the country's main Christian parties as well as Hizbullah.
Hariri's move prompted Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea to endorse the nomination of Aoun, his long-time Christian rival, after months of political rapprochement talks between their two parties.
The supporters of Aoun's presidential bid argue that he is more eligible than Franjieh to become president due to the size of his parliamentary bloc and his bigger influence in the Christian community.
25 September 2016, 17:22
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so you are admitting your iranian terrorist org is using weapons to intimidate the lebanese.
26 September 2016, 10:31
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Hariri was done when he lost the support of the saudi oily kings back in 2011.
Since then he's been desperately seeking to regain it, and in the process speaking more and more like a saudi, not even trying to appear Lebanese anymore, but to no avail. The brown nosing alone wont do him much good, other pawns have been selected and groomed since, and eager to prove their devotion to the wahhabi masters.
26 September 2016, 10:34
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Saad must be real proud, knowing he conspired with his father's killers (only question here is whether it was before or after the fact) and thought he would gain power and glory, only to be tossed out the back door like a used diaper. When will all the traitors in Lebanon realize this is and has always been their common fate? Nobody likes a traitor, not even those who benefit from their treason.
25 September 2016, 12:15
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terrorist wrote and no one dared to respond to the dark ages culture:
The grand Ayatollah Khamenei issued a decree forbidding women to ride bicycles in Iran because it is Haram.
He said, "Riding bicycle often attracts the attention of men and exposes the society to corruption, and thus contravenes women's chastity, and it must be abandoned,”according to the state-run media, September 10, 2016.
the Ayatollah issued the fatwa because he said the bike ride stimulates the clitoris and makes the vagina wet.
In his declaration a week before,when he spoke about the "direction of the state" and general policies on "family”; Khamenei defined women's only "role and mission" as "motherhood and housekeeping".
Source: http://irannewsupdate.com/news/women/3067-khamenei-issues-fatwa-women-may-not-ride-bicycles.html
Who would want to live under a backaged culture? Do the Lebanese Shi3a want to go backwards along this kind of model?
25 September 2016, 12:19
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There is no need for insulting Saudi Arabia as a backward culture. Dare to answer about Iran and express your agreement or disagreement with this dark age culture.
25 September 2016, 13:24
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Dear terrorist
I hope I didn't infringe any copyright by using your message. It was remarkable from you, as always.
