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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Saudi FM Urges Lebanese Leaders to End Hizbullah's 'Hegemony'
2021-11-16
[An Nahar] Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud has urged the Lebanese political class to put an end to 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...
’s "hegemony."

Bin Farhan affirmed that KSA is not willing to communicate with the Lebanese government "for the time being."

He added that the political class should take the necessary measures to "liberate Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial...
from Hizbullah and Iran."

For his part, former head of Saudi Intelligence Prince Turki al-Faisal, considered that "what’s happening in Lebanon is sad" and that the Lebanese, including the Shiites, are "paying the price."

"Not all Shiites there want Hizbullah's dominance," al-Faisal said.

He added that the solution is in the "hands of the people of Lebanon," praising the Lebanese October revolution "against the situation and Hizbullah."

Meanwhile,
...back at the hoedown, the fiddler suddenly struck a sour note. The dancing stopped abruptly. Everyone looked at Bob...
former Saudi ambassador to Lebanon Abdulaziz Khoja revealed that he had survived "3 liquidation attempts" while working in Lebanon. He did not accuse "any specific party."

He added that he had never imagined the ties to be cut between 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...
and Lebanon.

"KSA has helped Lebanon as a neighboring Arab country," Khoja stressed, adding that Saudi Arabia has donated "more than $72 billion to Lebanon since 1990."

"The Lebanese have had enough of Hizbullah’s dominance over Lebanon," he said.


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