[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Lebanese President Michel Aoun
...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
has said he rejected turning Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
into a "transit point" to harm Arab countries, mainly 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, as were most major jihadi commanders were, 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 Gulf states.
"These countries have always stood by Lebanon’s side," the President said during a meeting with Industry Minister Imad Hobballah, who was accompanied by a delegation from the Board of Directors of the Industrialists Association.
Riyadh on Friday announced the suspension of the fresh produce shipments from Lebanon, saying they were being used to hide drugs.
The Saudi news agency reported that customs officials in the Red Sea port of Jeddah seized 5.3 million banned captagon pills hidden in a consignment of pomegranates from Lebanon.
"Saudi Arabia is a brotherly country and we are interested in preserving the existing economic cooperation with it. Today, we are exerting great efforts to uncover the circumstances of what happened and put things back on the right track," the President stressed.
Aoun explained that Interior Minister Mohammed Fahmi has been assigned to follow-up the issue with the competent Saudi authorities.
"We hope to reach solutions," he said.
The President indicated that measures approved at a meeting held at Baabda Palace on Monday will be implemented, and security apparatuses will tighten control over export from Lebanon to reassure countries that receive Lebanese agricultural and industrial products.