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Hezbollah: Lebanon PM forced to resign by Saudi Arabia
« on: November 06, 2017, 06:36:18 am »
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Hezbollah: Lebanon PM forced to resign by Saudi Arabia
By Philip Issa | AP

BEIRUT — The head of Lebanon’s powerful militant group Hezbollah accused Saudi Arabia Sunday of forcing the country’s prime minister to resign after less than a year in his post, as Bahrain ordered its citizens in Lebanon to “leave immediately” and banned travel there.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri stunned Lebanon and its leaders Saturday when he announced his resignation in a televised statement recorded in Saudi Arabia, citing Iranian and Hezbollah meddling in Arab affairs.

Continued at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/bahrain-orders-citizens-to-leave-lebanon/2017/11/05/8b392e90-c235-11e7-9922-4151f5ca6168_story.html?utm_term=.38e6e2e3f1e1

Too bad, it was once the Christian nation in the ME.