Progress on the Neocon doctrine of creating upheaval and chaos in the Levant …
Saudi Arabia urges its citizens to leave Lebanon | Gulf News |
Saudi foreign minister Adel Al Jubeir in an interview with CNN echoed these concerns and said Hezbollah’s domination made fair governance impossible in Lebanon.
He also said ‘enough was enough’ for Iran’s continued meddling in the affairs of Arab countries citing its interference in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. [Or his Saudi royalty dedicated to wipe Shiites off the map in the Arabian peninsula. Saddam Hussein and the Iraq-Iran genocidal war of the 1980s – déjà vu ?]
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Saudi King Salman, right, meets with outgoing Lebanese Prime Minister Sa'ad Hariri in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Nov. 6, 2017. (Photo: Saudi Press Agency)On Saturday, Al Houthis fired a missile on Riyadh which was called an `act of war’ by the Saudi government.
Al Jubeir said the missile–which was intercepted before landing–was smuggled into the Hodeida Red Sea port city in Yemen from Iran which came in pieces and was assembled by Al Houthi militants in Yemen with the help of Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
[Read rest of article in Gulf News – warning: Saudi state propaganda] 😉
Meddling in affairs of the state of Lebanon … the question is more of … who isn’t involved in meddling in the Cedar State! Free roaming of western powers, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Syria, Turkey, Iran …
More below the fold …
A Saudi-orchestrated resignation throws Lebanon into turmoil | Times of Israel |
Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s abrupt resignation over the weekend was bizarre even by the often twisted standards of Lebanese politics — he made the surprise announcement from the Saudi capital in a pre-recorded message on a Saudi-owned TV station.
Stunned Lebanese are convinced Saudi Arabia, Hariri’s longtime ally, forced him to step down to effectively wreck the prime minister’s delicate compromise government with Saudi nemesis — and Iran ally — the Hezbollah terror group.
In doing so, the kingdom throws Lebanon into potential turmoil, forcing the small nation to become a new front in the regional fight for supremacy between Saudi Arabia and Iran — at a time when Iran and its allies are seen to have won the proxy war against Saudi-backed Sunni fighters in Syria.
Sunni-led Saudi Arabia, under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has been intensifying its confrontation with Shiite powerhouse Iran. The two camps support rival sides in countries across the region, worsening conflicts in Yemen, Syria and elsewhere.
Each also has its proxies in Lebanon, but in recent years, Lebanese parties have intently tried — largely successfully –to prevent those tensions from blowing up into full-scale violence in a country still haunted by memories from its own 1975-1990 civil war. Shiite Hezbollah dominates Lebanon, but it has sought not to provoke the Sunni community, which in turn has avoided crossing the group, considered by Israel and the US to be a terror organization.