Al-Monitor - Scenes of jubilation in the streets of Beirut, triggered by the Oct. 29 resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri, were not welcome news to Iran's political elites, who have closely and anxiously followed the last two weeks of popular protests in the Lebanese capital. Sparked by public discontent with corruption and stratification, ...

Euronews | Samia Mekki: Just a few words were necessary for Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri to announce his resignation, following two weeks of massive protests that rocked Lebanon from the north to the south, writes Euronews' Arabic service journalist Samia Mekki. I listened to the voice of the people, thats why I resign, said the embattled ...

Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry called on Lebanese political parties and figures to preserve unity and rapport to deal with the current delicate situation after the Arab countrys Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigned his post. In a statement on Tuesday, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Abbas Mousavi reacted ...

Reuters - Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri left for Riyadh late on Tuesday, his media office said, for his first to the Saudi capital since he abruptly resigned there in November. A statement by Hariris media office said he was responding to an invitation from Saudi envoy Nizar al-Aloula, whom he met in Beirut on Monday. It said Hariri would ...

Press TV - Saudi Arabia is reportedly set to seize assets of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in the kingdom as part of Riyadhs so-called anti-corruption campaign apparently targeting the crown princes critics and opponents. The New Arab, citing an unnamed source close to the Saudi authorities, reported on Monday that Riyadh is moving to ...

IRNA 2017 was a year of ups and downs for Lebanon during which the Lebanese could pass the difficult situations including the fight against terrorism and the crisis of their premier's resignation. The 2017, Lebanon events can be divided into three phases: 1. Early 2017 was the first days of the work of new Lebanese cabinet under the premiership ...

Press TV - A leading US daily has revealed new details of Saudi Arabia's degrading treatment of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri during a recent trip to Riyadh, where the Lebanese leader was coerced to read a prepared resignation speech under conditions similar to that of a captive. Prime Minister Hariri abruptly declared his resignation ...

Sputnik News- Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has formally revoked his resignation following a consensus deal with rival parties.The prime minister said that his cabinet "thanked" him for going back on his resignation on Tuesday, Reuters reports. The prime minister had unexpectedly resigned from his post early last month, throwing the small, religiously ...

Tasnim An American author and former diplomat from Washington, DC, said recent events surrounding Lebanons Prime Minister Saad Hariri and his decision to cancel his withdrawal from office prove the Saudi regimes incompetent foreign policy. Hariri's actions display much of the ham-fisted Saudi approach to international politics, Michael Springmann,...

Press TV - Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri has announced that he may retract his resignation by next week. "Matters are positive, as you hear, and if this positivity continues, we will announce, God willing, to Lebanese next week with President Michel Aoun and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri the withdrawal of the resignation," said a statement ...

Press TV - Lebanons President MichelAounsays Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who recently walked back on his shock resignation, will certainly remain in office. During a visit to Rome on Wednesday, Aoun told the Italian daily La Stampa that the political crisis in Lebanon triggered by Hariris November 4 departure announcementwill be resolved definitively ...

Press TV - Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thanisays Lebanon isthe latest target in aSaudicampaign of intimidation, stressing that the Riyadh regime is simply a bully that risks destabilizing peace and stability in the Middle East region. Speaking at a round table discussion at a conference in London, the top Qatari diplomat ...

Tasnim A prominent expert on Middle East affairs based in Moscow highlighted the reasons behind recent developments around Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariris resignation and said Iran and the Hezbollah resistance movement are the main targets of the ongoing strategic game. The target of the ongoing strategic game is not Hariri now; it is ...

Press TV - Lebanons Prime Minister Saad Hariri says he will resign if the Hezbollah resistance movement refuses to remain neutral. He said he would stay on as prime minister "if Hezbollah accepted to stick by the state policy of staying out of regional conflicts, in remarks to French broadcaster CNews. They know we have to remain neutral in ...

Press TV - Lebanese President Michel Aoun has held talks over the future of Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri's government with the country's political leaders after the latter decided to suspend his shock resignation, which he announced in Saudi Arabia earlier this month. A senior Lebanese official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the ...

Press TV- The parliamentary group of the Hezbollah resistance movementhas welcomed Prime Minister Saad Hariris return to Lebanon, who recently stepped back from his surprise resignation in Saudi Arabia. In a statement released on Thursday, the Loyalty to the Resistance Blocvoiced its great satisfaction with recent political developments in Lebanon,...

AP Saudi diplomacy is not having a good day in fact, its a double whammy and the kingdoms bullish 32-year-old crown prince is seen as the driving force behind the foreign policy blunders. On one side, Lebanons prime minister Saad Hariri, a Saudi ally, on Wednesday walked back his resignation, which had shocked the tiny nation when he broadcast ...

Reuters- Lebanons Saad al-Hariri on Wednesday suspended his decision to resign as prime minister at the request of President Michel Aoun to allow for dialogue, easing a major political crisis. Hariri made his announcement after returning to Beirut on Tuesday night for the first time since his Nov. 4 shock resignation in a statement broadcast from ...

Bloomberg | Donna Abu-Nasr: Prime Minister Saad Hariri returned to Lebanon after a near-three-week absence to tackle a crisis triggered by his shock resignation from Saudi Arabia, a decision that has thrust his fragile country to the fore of an escalating showdown between the kingdom and Iran. Hariri, a longtime Sunni ally of Saudi Arabia, joined ...

IRNA - Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri participated in Lebanese Independence Day held in Beirut on Wednesday. Lebanese President Michel Aoun and Pariament Speaker Nabih Berri also took part in the event. Lebanese Independence Day is the National Day of Lebanon celebrated on November 22 in commemoration of the end of the French Mandate over ...