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2020-01-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hezbollah Working Towards Gov't Formation
Lebanon has been without a functioning government since Saad al-Hariri quit as prime minister in October after protests against the political elite over corruption, leaving the country without a rescue plan as financial and economic crises deepen.

The worst economic crisis since the 1975-90 civil war has led the Lebanese pound to slump amid a dollar shortage and banks to tightly control access to cash and block transfers abroad.

Spiralling regional tensions since the killing of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, a close ally of Shi’ite Hezbollah, by the United States last week have added to the risks facing the heavily indebted state. Hezbollah has said Iran’s allies in the region should help avenge the killing.

But referring to the regional conflict, senior Hezbollah official Ibrahim Amin al-Sayyed said nobody including Hezbollah wanted “a government of confrontation” in Lebanon but one that could save the country.

“We are carrying a very important and exhausting role to reach an agreement as soon as possible to prevent this collapse,” Sayyed said.
Posted by Penguin_of_the_Desert 2020-01-09 11:39|| || Front Page|| [14 views ]  Top
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