Mashnouq Says Beirut Vote an 'Arab-Persian Battle'

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Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq on Monday described the upcoming electoral battle in Beirut's second district as an “Arab-Persian battle.”

“The vote in Beirut is a battle of fate, dignity and resolution between Arabism and Persianism,” Mashnouq, who is running for a Sunni seat in the district, said during a meeting with Beiruti families.

He reiterated that “political Velayat-e Faqih” will not take through ballot boxes “what it had failed to take through arms on May 7, 2008,” in an apparent jab at Hizbullah and Shiite Iran's form of Islamic rule.

“This time the battle is through ballot boxes, not through arms, muscles or fiery rhetoric,” Mashnouq added.

He noted that the presence of eight electoral lists competing against al-Mustaqbal Movement's list in Beirut is aimed at “scattering the votes of Beirut's people in order to lower the electoral threshold to the advantage of Hizbullah's list.”

“No list, other than Hizbullah's list, has a single political sentence in its electoral platform, and all they are focusing on is services and development... Let them nominate themselves to Beirut's municipality!” Mashnouq went on to say, slamming rival lists formed by businessmen, independents, civil society figures and leftist and Nasserite parties.

Comments 7
Thumb janoubi 30 April 2018, 18:40

elections rhetoric .... he slams hezbollah and then he forms a coalition government with them. He has a weekly meeting with Wafiq Safa who is a liaison officer for the terror militia. Please, go hang yourself as your name indicates.

Thumb lubnani.masi7i 30 April 2018, 18:49

"Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq on Monday described the upcoming electoral battle in Beirut's second district as an “Arab-Persian battle.”

What battle .... All I see is mutual admiration and praise between hariri and the iranian-persian militia.

Hariri praises Hezbollah's role in preserving political stability
https://en.annahar.com/article/731803-hariri-praises-hezbollahs-role-in-preserving-political-stability

Hezbollah welcomes ‘positive’ Hariri moves
https://www.timesofisrael.com/lebanons-hezbollah-hails-positive-hariri-moves/

Thumb liberty 01 May 2018, 05:09

lol

Thumb chrisrushlau 30 April 2018, 19:17

He only needs four more Saudi payments to complete purchase of his Harley-Davidson.

Thumb EagleDawn 30 April 2018, 19:50

"Laugh out loud!" Aka, LOL.
You are a joke.

Thumb justice 01 May 2018, 14:13

Arab-Persian Battle? I see.... and this battle will culminate in you electing the Persian Berri as Speaker and sharing a government with Persian terrorist Hezbollah.

Missing rabiosa 01 May 2018, 16:59

We don't want Arabism nor Persian. Leave us the hell alone. Arabism brought us disaster in the form of PLO and now the same scenario is repeating itself with the Persian and hizbos.