Lebanon and Iraq Protestors: The US, Israel and Saudi Arabia Are Fed Up with Iran 4/4

Lebanon and Iraq Protestors: The US, Israel and Saudi Arabia Are Fed Up with Iran 4/4

When the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says “The Iraqi and Lebanese people want their country back. They are discovering that the Iranian regime’s top export is corruption”, he is directly accusing the respective governments in Iraq and Lebanon of being pro-Iranian and therefore supporting the revolution. The US involvement in the Iraqi and Lebanese streets…

Lebanon and Iraq Protestors: The US, Israel and Saudi Arabia Are Fed Up with Iran 3/4

Lebanon and Iraq Protestors: The US, Israel and Saudi Arabia Are Fed Up with Iran 3/4

For the first time since Lebanese independence in 1945, protestors in Lebanon have hit the streets to protest against the corruption of all political leaders currently in power. However, they were not alone: many of the over one and a half million Syrian refugees and seven hundred thousand Palestinian refugees in the country also participated….

Lebanon: Hariri Positioning Himself for a Comeback to Remove ‘New’ Hezbollah President?

Lebanon: Hariri Positioning Himself for a Comeback to Remove ‘New’ Hezbollah President?

Into its third week and the stand-off between protestors and the elite in Lebanon is still holding strong as thousands of Lebanese are calling for a radical overhaul of a system which collapsed under its own weight of corrupt warlords who have looted the state coffers for decades But do they know what they want?…

Lebanon and Iraq Protestors: The US, Israel and Saudi Arabia Are Fed Up with Iran 2/4

Lebanon and Iraq Protestors: The US, Israel and Saudi Arabia Are Fed Up with Iran 2/4

In 1975, Lebanon went through 15 years of violent and destructive civil war. The circumstances before the beginning of the war were aimed at destroying and removing the Palestinian Liberation organisation (PLO) led by Yasser Arafat. Palestinians were drawn into a civil war in Lebanon, paving the way for an Israeli invasion in 1982 that…

Lebanon and Iraq Protestors: The US, Israel and Saudi Arabia are Fed Up with Iran 1/4

Lebanon and Iraq Protestors: The US, Israel and Saudi Arabia are Fed Up with Iran 1/4

The United States of America, Israel and Saudi Arabia are fed up with Iran and its allies in the Middle East. But despite waging war against Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon, by inviting the Iraqi government to dilute al-Hashd al-Shaabi, by attempting to submit Gaza and to curb the Houthis in Yemen, it was not…