Hariri Deems 'Shameful' Use of Media to Attack Saudi, Warns of Iran's Plot to Turn Yemen into Lebanon
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Head of the Mustaqbal Movement MP Saad Hariri remarked on Wednesday that Lebanon was “not in need of further problems created by Hizbullah”, the latest of which was dragging Tele Liban in the political and media battlefield in the country.
He condemned in a statement the use of “Lebanese media outlets to target friendly Arab countries and Saudi Arabia similar to the practices adopted by some suspicious voices and yellow journalism that want Lebanon to become a partner in antagonizing its Arab brothers for the sake of Iran and its regional policies.”
“Remaining silent over this issue is not justified, whether for the sake of dialogue, which we still seek, or for the sake of placing national interests above foreign ones, especially after witnessing officials from the other side of the divide being adept at jeopardizing these interests on a daily basis,” he added.
“It is unfortunate that Lebanon is being used to these ends, such as linking it to regional conflicts,” he lamented.
“It is unfortunate that some of our media have become outlets to the butcher Bashar Assad in harming a state that has only offered goodness to the Lebanese people and whose officials have only spoken well of it since Lebanon's independence,” Hariri said in reference to Saudi Arabia, while noting its positive role in helping end the 1975-90 Lebanese civil war and 2006 Israeli war.
“History will play witness to what Saudi Arabia presented to Lebanon and none of the poisonous voices will be able to alter or tarnish this truth,” Hariri stressed.
“Saudi Arabia's actions in the region stem from its belief in protecting the Arab identity and the rights of its people to security, stability, and development, as opposed to other countries, like Iran that seek to destroy this stability and turn Arab capitals into open grounds for sectarian and armed chaos,” declared the lawmaker.
“Ever since Iran sought to export its revolution to Lebanon, it has presented the Lebanese with division and fuel to stoke civil strife,” he noted.
“It transformed Hizbullah into an armed militia and military force led by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and operating independently from the state, its laws and legitimate institutions,” he added.
“It has become apparent to observers that Iran does not pay heed to Arab countries and their official institutions as much as it is interested in infiltrating societies and manipulating sectarian tensions,” Hariri stated.
Iran is working on empowering groups and parties that are under the wing the Revolutionary Guards or the strategic project of the Iranian agenda in the region, he continued.
“This was evident in Lebanon 35 years ago when Hizbullah came out of the Iranian womb and it is repeating itself in Yemen with the rise of the armed Huthi movement, known as Ansarullah, that grew out of the Revolutionary Guards fold in 2002,” he explained.
“Iran seeks to replicate the Lebanese scenario in Yemen where it has been fashioning the Ansarullah Huthi movement in the shape of Hizbullah in order to transform it into a pawn at the doorstep of Mecca and the Arab Gulf,” he noted.
“Saudi Arabia has sought to combat this plan, even though it took place at the last minute, through political means and calls to hold dialogue, but to no avail,” he said.
“It consequently resorted to military operation Decisive Storm to prevent Yemen from committing the same error as Lebanon did,” Hariri added.
“Lebanon has been dealing with this error on the basis of safeguarding national interests, averting strife, and preventing further Iranian meddling in our daily life,” he explained.
“It is our duty not to remain silent over the ongoing error,” he demanded, while reiterating calls to keep Lebanon at a distance from regional wars.
“It is our duty to also not remain silent over the major and minor voices that are harming Saudi Arabia and its leadership,” he stated.
“Saudi Arabia knows very well that Lebanon will not sell its Arab identity to those who seek to harm it,” he stressed.
“The Lebanese people know that the kingdom will not abandon it no matter how high the harmful voices are raised,” he declared.
Hariri made his statement on the wake of the outrage over Tele Liban's airing of an interview with Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Monday during which he renewed his harsh criticism of Saudi Arabia and its role in the region, most notably in Yemen and Syria.
Nasrallah declared that Saudi Arabia will suffer a “major defeat” in the Yemeni conflict, as he stressed that “the war on Syria” has failed.
“Saudi Arabia will suffer a major defeat that will have an impact on its domestic situation and the entire region,” he told al-Ikhbariya in an interview that was broadcast by Tele Liban.
Saudi Arabia began its airstrikes in Yemen on March 25, announcing that it had put together a coalition of more than 10 countries, including five Gulf monarchies, for the military operation to defend Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansur Hadi's government against the Shiite Huthi rebels.
The military move against the rebels triggered fury from Saudi Arabia's regional rival Iran, Hizbullah's main regional ally, with officials in Tehran warning that the military action threatened to spill over into other countries.
Critics of Tele Liban, Lebanon's official state television, said it had violated its objective media reporting by broadcasting an interview by Nasrallah from Syrian television.
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08 April 2015, 11:50
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between the Swedish prime minister and president Obama and you mr harriri , the right and independent mind will believe the words of the two western leaders
god bless democracy
08 April 2015, 19:59
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Lebanon can choose to give the Shia majority civil rights now peacefully or have it imposed on you a bit later. By "Lebanon" I obviously refer to the four or five warlords who cash the checks from KSA and NATO.
08 April 2015, 20:03
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Giving the shia civil right? can u enphasise? Elaborate? What civil right more than sunis do u think they diserve?? This if u are talking about parlementary seats (in 3 rd ; sunis and shia will get both more seats while christian less)....
Or were u thinking of a civil state with civil mariage? Gender equality?... Hezbos wanted that all that time and we just didnot get it???
08 April 2015, 20:30
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Chris, dreams are free, so you keep dreaming, like the many many before you.
08 April 2015, 20:32
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chrisrushlau - The Shia are a majority in Lebanon. At most, they are the largest sect followed by Sunnis. But I seem to agree with you ' By "Lebanon" I obviously refer to the four or five warlords who cash the checks from KSA and NATO.' Those cashing checks from Iran hardly qualify as Lebanese.
08 April 2015, 22:52
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We can all agree that Hariri may not be the best speaker in Lebanon. But the prize for the demagoguery goes to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HODmhQvd1C0
08 April 2015, 17:12
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Exactly man how smart are u, and to counter actack iran ordered their secular guy to not go to parlementary sessions and leave the country without a president...
Retard...
08 April 2015, 11:59
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M14 simply can't understand, that the free people wants to break the Saudi shackles tied to their legs, that is why the Saudi wahabis made such a desperate move on Yemen.
08 April 2015, 12:04
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Please Mystic what about the huthis shooting on innocent peaceful civilians demonstrating on the street against the armed agression of the huthis on public and government institutions? Is this freedom?
08 April 2015, 12:16
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What peaceful protests were those? They are armed people financed by Saudi and Hadi the fugitive. Saudi Arabia used tanks to assist the corrupted Bahraini government and rolled over protest camps there, nobody said anything back then.
08 April 2015, 18:43
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الهدف من بندقية حزب الله كان المساهمة بإنشاء مشروع ولاية الفقيه والامبراطورية الفارسية. أما مواضيع العداء النظري لإسرائيل والمتاجرة بفلسطين وقضيتها، فكانت جزءاً من عدّة الشغل
08 April 2015, 12:02
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Southern - Nasrallah expressed his opinion with a total disregard to the Lebanese national interest. Hariri expressed his opinion in the defense of Lebanese national interest. People can choose who to support! The difference between Hariri and Nasrallah is that only one is willing to impose his will in total disregard to the national institutions, drag the countries into war, overthrow government by force, assassinate opponents, ...
08 April 2015, 13:36
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LOL ya ArabTheocrat, hariri only speaks in defense of his kind and master, don't forget he is saudi by birth and education.
And if he finds it "shameful" to use medias to voice opinions, why is he constantly tweeting verbal attacks and hate? Is it just his masters and kings that cannot be criticized?
08 April 2015, 13:40
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And finally, I dont see what the problem would be if Yemen was "turned into Lebanon"?
If Yemen became 10% like Lebanon it would already be far better off than what the Saudis did to it. Nobody could do worse to Yemen than Saudis did by excluding them from the GCC because they are too poor, stealing their resources, and using them like slaves & cattle ( https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=867289179976370 )
08 April 2015, 13:48
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“Lebanon has been dealing with this error on the basis of safeguarding national interests, averting strife, and preventing further Iranian meddling in our daily life,” he explained.
>> what meddling? all i see is oily kings giving us their "instructions" and placing their "vetoes" all over our political decisions
08 April 2015, 13:49
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“It is our duty to also not remain silent over the major and minor voices that are harming Saudi Arabia and its leadership,” he stated.
>> that's the only thing he cares about, faithful puppy to his masters.
08 April 2015, 13:58
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sick minds... is it the same mufti who had this other fantastic idea?
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/destroy-all-churches-in-gulf-says-saudi-grand-mufti-450002.html
08 April 2015, 14:26
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mowaten
do you know why the_roar and I appear and disappear at the same time?
08 April 2015, 20:27
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Mowaten - All of those replies and you did not deal with a single point I made. Not one. Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese work in the Gulf. Billions of dollars have been given to the Lebanese government by Gulf countries. Where is the national interest in alienating these countries? It shows yet again that Nasrallah and the HA care only for their masters in Tehran and not for the average Lebanese who is struggling to make a living in the impossible conditions created by Hezbollah.
08 April 2015, 12:59
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(1). Here we are, Lebanese arguing against each other for the KSA and Iran. Interesting, very interesting how much heart you fellows put into it. I have yet to see one damn Iranian or one damn Saudi who argues with his own brother respectively for us Lebanese, not one, not now not ever. But we Lebanese, we're so good at it, the next thing is we will carry guns and shoot at each other because of the NON-Lebanese. Haven't we done that already for the PLO and Arafat? haven't we done that for Hafez Al Assad then continued in the tradition for his son Bachar? Haven't we shot at each other for Iran's Ayatollah's? Or for the Saudi kings? Or for the monarchs of the Gulf? Lebanon sure has a flag, an anthem, is made up of 10,452 sq.kms. Lebanon sure is inhabited by a supposed 4 million Lebanese, but Lebanon is not in the hearts of most Lebanese, what is in the hearts of most Lebanese are NON-Lebanese countries.
08 April 2015, 20:14
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(1). BJ, you failed to read from history's records. The LF, then Kataeb did not choose Israel by sheer coincidence, that world you mentioned was all against us Christians. yes, you are right, Christians like most humans are divided, (circa Amal Hezbollah wars) to cite one of many examples of human nature. Bachir united our ranks, even if forcefully so and we lived under One command for years. We bought our weapons BJ, no one gave us much. We sewed our uniforms, and I was one who wore that uniform with pride for it represented the fight against those who wanted us Christians out of the way to make a substitute Palestinian state. Our disunity came about the agents that Syria used against us, Elie Hobeika or HK, the Michel Aoun or the Claoun. They tried first with HK, it didn't work, then they got us Aoun the claoun, and he did the job for Syria
08 April 2015, 20:20
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(2). BJ. HK is gone, wou Allah maye reddoh, but Aoun, ah yes, that evil claoun is still around and hoping to be president of lebanon, so that he could finish the job. But you see, that won't happen. You see BJ, Kataeb, Al A7rar, Al Rabtah Al Marouniyeh, in brief, the LF, they did not happen for the pleasure of it, it happened when Christians are cornered, the LF are the circled wagons of the true Lebanese Resistance and not some Charlie Chaplin comedy movie like Hezbollah. We don't aspire to build a micky mouse state, we step in to preserve it. I wish we were an island BJ, because we would not have had that trash called Syria or Iran or anything of the like peddling their rubbish on us. Finally, this is where you made your worst mistake by good BJ, no one can swallow us and hope to digest us, you forgot, we are Lebanese, anyone who tried to swallow us had to spit us out, look at Syria now, and you will understand why.
08 April 2015, 20:51
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phoenix bro, you are much older than me, i know. but why bother argue with these traitors who co-operate with the devil against their own. This so called john is a syrian baathist who forgets if it were not for the Lebanese Forces everybody in Lebanon would be speaking arabic with a thick Syrian accent. Cheers and Beers bro.
08 April 2015, 13:01
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(2). Hezbollah will fight for Syria and Iran, other Lebanese parties will fight for the KSA, hence and so forth, but who are the ones who will fight for Lebanon these days, whom? I guess the time has now come when we have to start our anthem with "Koulouna lil ghourbeyyeh, lil Houthis woul Wahabiyeh..." and put on our currency the heads of the Saudi monarch and Iran's Ayatollahs. OK, now people, watch how the accusations and counter accusations will fly, so predictable they have become.
08 April 2015, 13:41
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Hariri is a Saudi dual citizen whereas Nasrallah is only a Lebanese citizen.
08 April 2015, 13:57
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I was very impressed by your deep thoughts I had to commend you on your comment.
08 April 2015, 14:31
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Naharnet censoring the Saudi mufti! They might get some complaints from the shareholders lol
08 April 2015, 13:43
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I don't think saad believes in freedom of press, just have a look at his country saudia and see how free their speech and press are.
And he never complained about it, so I guess he is satisfied with it.
08 April 2015, 15:08
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ya mowaten you are a shining example of freedom of press. I love to read one article without having to see your disgusting propaganda polluting this forum.
08 April 2015, 15:04
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do you have a life other then being on this forum 24/7 making fake names and making yourself look good?? There is a life out there you know.
08 April 2015, 15:44
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Well tric thank you for not bringing "the christians of the levant" , really it is nice of you for a change..
Now to answer your question, probably never listen what aoun himself really think about assad and hezbos:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c2j9GWzVSMY
08 April 2015, 16:36
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Mr. Hariri:
Your inaction, gullibility, and poor leadership coupled with bad advice from walid joumblatt allowed hezbollah and Iran to take control of Lebanon. The Yemeni people are doing what you did not dare to do and that is standing up to the iranian style hezbollah and defending their country with blood. After they surrounded your residence on May 7th, you went to Doha and signed an agreement with them and later formed a joint government with them. You will never learn and if Lebanon is to get out of this crisis, you need to go and let someone else take the reigns.
Thank you and I hope you read my comments.
08 April 2015, 20:42
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just amazes me who has the time and energy to do this if he was not on someone's payroll. It is so funny because it seems to be done by the same person who creates a new account per comment and votes himself up. I read naharnet twice a day and I skim over comments to have a feel for what people think. For some time now, you will find the usual 2 yellow/orange posters and maybe 10-15 anti HA posters. Yet, the two usual yellow posters have 20 up votes:) Add to it the usual insults and derailing. Sure signs of weakness.. have a good evening.
09 April 2015, 05:52
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As a leftist why don't you go live in North Korea and practice your freedom of Speech instead of living in the USA posting at 4 a.m Beirut time.
08 April 2015, 17:17
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Bigjohn u seem frustrated, i'm sure all lebanese support democratic assad, secular hezbollah and very progressist suprem leadder ayatollah al khomaini... Don't listen to this wahabi hariri he wants to impose charia on us, nothing to be compared to baalbak/tyr fiestas organised by hezbollah...
And anyway the rest that donnot agree with nassy are just wahabi/zionists/imperialist/neo nazy...
Relax man, have some chupachups, chant some lebayaka ya nosrollah it will calm u down...
By the way talking about neonazy can u explain how come antinazy putin is backing far right europeen parties?...
08 April 2015, 18:01
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Far right europeen right pro-orthodox? Man first it's nonsence (orthodox man?? Christians of the levent style?) the thing in comon would be fashism, homophobic, non acceptance of the others... Nazy style (u should read a litle about far right parties...)
Anw thanks for the debated, even if u are mixing stuff up it stays more elaborated than march 8 hassabalah group on this forum...
08 April 2015, 18:26
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Bigjhon after all u said u still support this shiite sectarian millicia? ?
Do u know who are hezbos alternative to hariri in tripoli?? (Mikati sided later but the "patriotic parties under hezbos/march8 umbrella) hasem minkara and bilal chaaban!!!
Do u know how secular, how less salafist than hariri they are???
Bighohn please think it over and come for real arguments so we can go point by point...
08 April 2015, 18:27
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And one more thing secular doesnot meet leftist, ump sarko and al. Are secular but not leftists..
But sectarians are worse than any imperialist/capitalist.....
08 April 2015, 18:04
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Hitler secular?? Man hating jews is not secular?? Sending thousand to death bc of their religion is not secular, man where did u learn what secular means???
I'm against zionism (that is a political stand) but not against jews (many zionists are not even jews!!!)
Man hitler secular???
08 April 2015, 20:51
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Maybe ya Southern, but Hezbollah and his little babies in the FPM starting from Aoun the claoun, they got the Ebola virus directly from a bad habit known as butt kissing, Iranian and Syrian butt kissing.
