Report: Contacts over Presidency 'Frozen' due to Saudi-Iranian Tensions
Efforts to resolve the vacuum in the presidency have reached a standstill given the flare up of regional tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, reported As Safir newspaper on Wednesday.
March 8 camp sources told the daily: “Contacts, most notably those on the presidency, are frozen until a breakthrough is reached between Riyadh and Tehran.
“This deadlock will affect all other files, except the cabinet, which is awaiting serious efforts over the need to revitalize it,” they remarked.
“Lebanon is therefore now in a waiting phase,” they noted.
The next round of the national dialogue will reopen discussions on activating the government, they revealed to the daily.
The dialogue is scheduled for Monday.
Tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia reached new heights over the weekend after the kingdom executed prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr on “terrorism” charges.
The deterioration of relations saw the severing of diplomatic ties between the two countries.
Some Arab states have also followed in Saudi Arabia's suit.
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