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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
March 8 Forces Want 'Price' for Kordahi Resignation
2021-11-03
[An Nahar] The Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
-led March 8 forces
... the opposition to the Mar. 14th movement, consisting of Hizbullah and its allies, so-called in commemoration of their Mar. 8th, 2006 demonstration of strength in Beirut ...
have not completely closed the door in the face of the possibility of the resignation of Information Minister George Kordahi, highly informed sources said.

March 8 would accept such a move "for the sake of keeping the government, after they sensed seriousness in its premier’s intention to resign should intransigence continue," the sources added, in remarks to the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper.

"The political sides concerned with negotiating over ’Kordahi’s head’ seemed over the past hours open to the choice of his resignation, but they are still refraining from offering this card without something in return," the sources went on to say.

The sources added that the discussions are currently focused on "the price that can be obtained on the dialogue table with Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
in return for moving forward with this choice."
Posted by:Fred

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