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2019-04-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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How President Aoun is pulling Lebanon into the Iran-Maduro axis
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Lebanese ruling establishment’s actions during Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza’s recent trip to Leb have once again proven its disregard for the crumbling economy. President  Michel Aoun
...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of 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...
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seems to be on a campaign to invite US sanctions on the country. Over the last few years, he has acquired a knack for stepping in the path of danger while praying for the best.
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Arreaza met with Aoun and his son-in-law Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil. His Beirut stop, part of an international tour which included The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
, primarily aims to muster international support for the ailing regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
 Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy...
, whose corrupt rule and years of western sanctions have led one of the richest Latin American countries to poverty and starvation.
Arreaza, who is married to the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s daughter, seemed unfazed by the fact that over 90 percent of his countrymen live in poverty or that over two-thirds are suffering from food shortage. He checked into an upscale Beirut hotel and used his two-day trip to whitewash his regime's image.
Venezuela’s top diplomats declared that the purpose of the visit was to discuss bilateral relations between the two countries as well as the conditions back home. However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well...
Arreaza’s real intention was to deliver a message to the international community, and specifically to US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s administration, that Leb falls within the sphere of Iran-Maduro axis. Arreaza’s visit was also an occasion for some archaic anti-western Lebanese factions ‐ who front for Hezbollah and Syria ‐ to show solidarity with "the Venezuelan people."
Iran-Venezuela ties date back to the presidency of Maduro’s predecessor Hugo Chavez, and the two countries have since developed common ill feelings toward the US. Iran has continued its support for Venezuela since power passed from Chavez to Maduro in 2013.
So it is not surprising that Iran and Maduro are making this desperate attempt to flex their muscles. Yet what remains ambiguous is why Aoun, who says he has Leb’s interests in mind, would partake in this instigation of the international community. The reason could be his claim that Hezbollah, whom he repeatedly defends, comprises the majority of the Lebanese Shiites, and that the sanctions against Iran are not consensual as many European countries refuse to implement them.
But the fact is that the Trump administration has imposed economic sanctions against Maduro’s allies for blocking humanitarian aid , with the full backing of over 65 countries. These include dozens of European Union
 ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
nations, which have recognized speaker of parliament Juan Guaido, who leads a popular opposition, as interim president. So however Aoun and his allies wish to spin it, Leb has little to profit from allowing this anti-western charade to take place.
On the other hand, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri
 Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
’s refusal to meet with Arreaza showed sound judgment on his part, as such a meeting would have placed more pressure on Leb from its Arab neighbors and suggested that Hariri’s commitment to Leb’s disassociation policy is a farce.
If Aoun were the dedicated leader he claims to be, he would avoid further implicating Leb in the US-Iran fistfight ‐ one in which the Lebanese and their economy will be collateral damage. Arreaza could have been given audience with only his Lebanese counterpart Bassil. Alternatively, since Aoun insisted on meeting him, he could have issued a statement highlighting Leb’s continued commitment to its disassociation policy.
Clearly, Aoun and his allies are fully aware of the implications of their continued lobbying for the Iran axis, a policy that alienates Leb and makes the possibility of its economic resurgence virtually impossible.
As long as the Lebanese allow for this reckless policy to persist, they have nothing to look forward to except a full economic collapse. Instead of the Cedre Conference economic stimulus, they will be left with the "Aoun Diet," which like its Venezuelan equivalent, is both unhealthy and above all fatal.
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