MESOPOTAMIA NEWS REPORT : LEBANON ELECTIONS A GREAT VICTORY FOR HEZBOLLAH – IRAN & ASSAD
Emile Hokayem اميل الحكيم @emile_hokayem 6 hours ago 7 May 2018
3/ for all the talk about intra-Shia dissent, Hezbollah is in control. It will benefit from dealing with weaker Aoun and weaker Hariri. It will come across as reasonable and magnanimous by letting them run the official show while doing what it really wants to.
Emile Hokayem اميل الحكيم @emile_hokayem 6 hours ago
1/ First post-election observation in Lebanon: Hariri is the biggest loser. His traditional constituency, dejected by his weakness and angered by his compromises w/ Aoun, chose to stay home instead of voting (esp in Beirut).
Riam DalatiVerified account @Dalatrm 4 hours ago – The #Syria regime looks fully resurgent in #Lebanon for 1st time since assassination of PM Rafik #Hariri, 14 years ago. Names which became too toxic to even mention after 2004, because of their extreme closeness to the Assad regime, have been re-elected in 2018 #LebanonElections
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