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2021-11-05 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Miqati Urges Kordahi to Resign, Hits Out at Hizbullah and Its Allies
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[An Nahar] Prime Minister  Najib Miqati on Thursday again urged Information Minister George Kordahi to step down over an unprecedented diplomatic rift 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...
, saying his resignation would be "a priority.""I reiterate my call for the information minister to put national interest first," Miqati said in a speech from the Grand Serail, shortly after he met in Baabda with President Michel Aoun
...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
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"The information minister's personal stances have plunged Lebanon Hezbollahstan
 ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ...
into the dangerous position of being boycotted by the Gulf countries," he said.
The rift has threatened to destabilize the new government of Miqati, sworn in less than two months ago, and escalate Lebanon's economic tailspin.
Miqati said the information minister's resignation would help resolve a crisis with the kingdom and its Gulf Arab allies, and preserve the "depths and good relations with the Arab and Gulf countries, especially Saudi Arabia."
He also had stern words for his partners in government -- 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...
and its allies -- who have rejected calls that Kordahi resign.
"We're determined to address the file of the relation with Saudi Arabi and the Gulf countries according to proper norms and we won't leave this file to be subject to political bickering and wrangling," Miqati said.
"The government is the normal place for discussing files, away from dictations, and no Lebanese party can control the country on its own," he added, noting that "mistaken are those who think that obstruction and political escalation are the solution."
"Mistaken are those who consider that they can remove Lebanon from its Arab environment, especially from its ties with Saudi Arabia," Miqati stressed.
"Mistaken are those who think that they can impose their opinion through the power of obstruction or verbal escalation," he added. "Mistaken are those who think that they can stage a coup against the constitution and return the country to internal strife and divisions," the premier went on to say.
Miqati also lamented that the government "has been paralyzed from the inside," criticizing "the approach of unilateralism and obstruction" inside Cabinet.
He said that some parties tried to "push the government to interfere in a judicial matter that it has nothing to do with," as he called for "rectifying the excesses of the investigative judge (into the Beirut port blast case), especially as to the issue of the trial of presidents and ministers."
The spat was triggered by Kordahi's remarks aired last week about the war in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, where a Saudi-led coalition is battling Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels. Lebanese officials have said that Kordahi's remarks do not represent official government views.
Riyadh has withdrawn its ambassador from Beirut and asked the Lebanese envoy to leave the kingdom. It has also banned Lebanese imports, undermining the small nation's foreign trade and depriving it of millions of dollars even as it struggles amid an economic meltdown.
"The country can't be managed with the language of challenge and obstinacy," said Miqati, who returned to Beirut on Wednesday night from the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland. "We must unite behind one word to work on saving our country."
He said that all ministers "must abide by ministerial solidarity and the ministerial statement."
As for the next steps, Miqati said: "Decisive meetings are ahead of us before taking a decisive stance on every matter that we are determined to fully address and everyone must help us in this aspired rescue action."
"Let us show unity to protect the Lebanese and the country of the cedars and let us all shun bickering," he urged.
Lebanon has sought French and U.S. mediation with Saudi Arabia.
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