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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lebanon needs early elections to regain legitimacy
2020-03-01
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Recent US sanctions on Hezbollah in Leb ‐ and the prospect of more to come ‐ are only piling on problems for Prime Minister Hassan Diab’s Hezbollah-backed government. It has becoming increasingly clear early elections are needed for Leb to start down a legitimate path to reform.

The March 8 electoral alliance that backs Diab, which includes Hezbollah and its fellow Shia party Amal, has so far done little to tick the boxes that would lead Leb to stability. They have insufficient support from the protest movement. Being Iran-affiliated, they have no foreign allies willing or able to provide new economic lifelines ‐ and they are now incurring the increasing sanctions wrath of the United States in its anti-Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
regional campaign, with the most recent sanctions coming on February 26. And Hezbollah has proved an obstacle to much-needed International Monetary Fund management of the economic crisis. The Shia group said it does not oppose Leb seeking the IMF’s advice, but it is against the fund managing Leb’s financial crisis.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Wait til coronavirus gets into Ein-El-Hellhole
Posted by: Frank G   2020-03-01 06:40  

#1  Lebanon, Legitimacy, oxymoron.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-03-01 02:20  

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