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| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| Disarming Hezbollah and American-Iranian Rapprochement |
| 2008-03-19 |
| Huda al Husseini It is the first marathon of its kind in which the finishing line is undefined. Speaker of the Lebanese parliament Nabih Berri is gaining ground and may continue to do so with no end in sight. Berri still has energy to continue this long marathon – if only just to hinder the election of a Lebanese president so that he may arrive at the Iranian parliament (Majlis-e-Shuray-e Islami). Perhaps Berri is unaware that since the day he suspended the activities of the parliament there have been parliamentary and presidential elections held in Syria and that Iran just held its parliamentary elections last Friday, while the presidential elections are expected to be held in June 2009. The Lebanese parliament is not functioning thanks to its head whose only task may be summed up as calling for a session then cancelling it and then calling for another only to cancel it again – all of which is taking place without obstruction. |
| Posted by:Fred |