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NCRI –\u00a0Bahrain has ordered its citizens to leave Lebanon amid mounting tensions between regional Sunni powers and Iran regime that have left the government in Beirut on the brink of collapse. Wrote Sara, Elizabeth Williams in \u2018The Telegraph News\u2019 on November 5, the following is an excerpt of this article.<\/p>\n
The order from Bahrain\u2019s Foreign Ministry reflects growing fears for Lebanon\u2019s stability following the shock resignation of Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Bahraini order and an additional ban on travel to Lebanon marks the latest escalation in a multi-fronted confrontation between Saudi Arabia and Iranian regime which is playing out on political and military battlefields throughout the region, including Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.<\/p>\n
Mr Hariri delivered his resignation speech from the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, where he fled for his own safety, citing a foiled assassination attempt by Iran on his way out of Lebanon.<\/p>\n
He accused Iran of meddling in Lebanese politics and taking the country \u201cas hostage\u201d. He said the atmosphere in Lebanon now was similar to that in 2005, when his father, former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, was assassinated in a car bombing.<\/p>\n
Iran and Saudi Arabia have long sparred in the Lebanese political arena. Hizbollah is allied to and backed by Tehran, and is widely seen as a projecting Iranian influence.<\/p>\n
Mr Hariri, scion of a Sunni Lebanese polity dynasty, was seen to have extended an olive branch to Hizbollah when he formed a national unity government less than a year ago.<\/p>\n
The president of that government, Michel Aoun, who is a political ally of Hizbollah, said he would not accept Mr Hariri\u2019s resignation until the prime minister returns to Lebanon.<\/p>\n
While many analysts saw Mr Hariri\u2019s resignation as evidence that Hizbollah was being pushed back, some fear it will lead to further instability in an already fragile country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe situation is open to all scenarios, including violence,\u201d said Hanin Ghaddar, a Lebanon analyst with the Washington Institute.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Iranians have so many people in Lebanon, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if they kill again. This is their strategy. They do that, they kill people. They do not stop.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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