Trump 'Extends Lebanon Sanctions Because of Hizbullah'
US President Donald Trump has reportedly extended sanctions imposed on Lebanon since 2007 for another year, the White House announced on Saturday.
The White House explained in a statement that Trump made the decision because “Iran continues to supply arms to Hizbullah.”
In a letter to the US Congress, Trump said “Iran was supplying its allies in Lebanon with increasingly sophisticated weapons.”
Washington says “these sanctions were imposed on those who undermine sovereignty and democracy in Lebanon, organize violence for political reasons and contribute to Syria's influence on Lebanese territory.”
Under Executive Order 13441, Washington announced in 2007 that sanctions would be imposed on Lebanon as a result of “international threats posed by Hizbullah,” according to the United States.
The latest sanctions imposed on Hizbullah by the United States and six Gulf states last May included party leaders, including Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
Hizbullah is fighting alongside the Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad.
over 5 years
ignorance is bliss
over 5 years
It's the same God in old testament and the new testament numbnuts. If you were a real Catholic or even a Christian you would know this. BTW congrats on spelling Christians correctly. I guess you confused yourself when you quickly changed from patriotic to portugal and forgot how illiterate you made out portugal to be. I suggest you drop the act and go smack yourself repeatedly on the head with the Gospel of Barnabas while chanting ya hussein ya hussein until bleeding occurs. It might knock some sense into it.
over 5 years
Also got tell the Iranian towel heads to stop stealing Christian icons, rituals and symbols. Hussein is not the same as Jesus, Zaynab is not the same as the Virgin Mary, the twelve Imams are not the same as twelve apostles, the blood of Hussein is not the same as the blood of Christ, the Vali-ye faqih is not the pope, Ashura is not the same as Easter and it's procession is not the same as the Palm Sunday procession. Yours are not a thing they were invented less than 100 years ago in Iran to rally the Shiites of the world under the Persian Qom banner as opposed to Arab Najaf. Stop appropriating our cultural icons and ritual and go make up you own.
over 5 years
"Laugh out loud!" Aka, LOL.
Say it again, Chris.
over 5 years
Amen, "eagledawn".
over 5 years
Hezbollah has no demographic advantage. That's why it doesn't do what you insist it should do, use it's arms to overturn Article 24 in the street. An easy thing to do if it had even a slight demographic advantage. Hezbollah's raison d'être is for Lebanon to become part of a great Islamic republic and if it had the demographic advantage it would've done it long ago. It has the funding and it has the arms but lacks the most important ingredient, the numbers. Unlike know-it-all ignorant American Hezbollah knows the truth. Which is that the Shias are not the majority in Lebanon, not even the majority Muslim sect in Lebanon and that neither them alone nor the Sunnis alone are more than all the Christians sects combined. It's also the reason neither Hezbollah nor Berri will ever ask for a national census. The only parties that would love to see Lebanon fall into a civil war are the Zionists and the Syrian Ba'athists, which group do you belong to chris? I wouldn't be surprised if it's both.
over 5 years
I mean civil action: speeches, pamphleting, door-to-door canvassing. Like siht-on-a-shingle says, it'd be hard to be an Iraqi Baathist Zionist. Noam Chomsky is my authority for Shia demographic prevalence. He seems the kind of guy who would know something like that. If you're right and Christians are the majority, it's time for them to turn the other cheek and give away this privilege (supposedly given: by whom? how ratified?) in Article 24. They don't need it, they have the numbers, right? So what's my theory about Hezbullah refusing this civil course? As an Israeli Jew told me, Israel would love to be able to blame the Lebanese public for Hezbullah: declare total war on Lebanon the next time Israel is embarrassed by Hezbullah on the battlefield.
over 5 years
"speeches, pamphleting, door-to-door canvassing".. are you serious!? please don't take this personally but this is one of the most ignorant things I have read on Naharnet in a long time. It shows a blatant lack of knowledge about Lebanese society. Furthermore your authority on this is flawed to begin with. Not even Chomsky himself would claim to be an authority on Lebanon, on the Arab-Israeli conflict maybe but not Lebanon. He visited Lebanon three times tops, the last time more than 10 years ago and left here repeating what he was told. That's about summarize his knowledge of Lebanon's demography. Student unions use to bring him over to lecture at pro-Palestine forums as quaint anti-Israel anti-USA American jew. Lebanon has no majority. We're a nation of different sized minorities. The Christians are not the majority. As usual you misunderstood what you read, a side effects of your ignorance. You also misread article 24.
over 5 years
It does not set-aside of half of Parliament to Christians, as you insist. It divides it equally between Muslims and Christians till a senate, where the sects would be represented, is established. It wasn't established between 1990 and 2005 because the Syrian occupiers who controlled the country refused to do so. The Christians were marginalized then so you can't spew your hatred on us. Since 2005 whatever the Parliament's majority the Syrians were de facto replaced by Hezbollah. Hegemony wins. Your theory about Hezbollah is laughable to say the least, Israel never needed a reason to blame the Lebanese public. Unfortunately Instead of trying to learn about our country you insist on lazily coming up with crazy fantasy based theories and on calling us racist because in your sanctimonious small mind you are heroically defending the oppressed downtrodden Shias. Sorry to break this to you but most of us in Lebanon are the same race, the Armenians and a few fringe groups are the exceptions.
over 5 years
Racism is the mistaken belief that there is more than one human race. When someone ignores someone else who deserves that person's attention, that's racism. Before the Cedar Revolution, the Christians had a 6:5 advantage in Parliamentary set-aside. This is proof that France never wanted Syria, with Lebanon, to be independent or stable. A stable country rests on a population which knows its opinions are listened to. If you want to know Lebanese demographics, you need to know people who know people in US intelligence who know people in Israeli intelligence.
Thank you southern for being patriotic and for posting under the patriotic alias. I know you have numerous aliases but I really like this one.
Having said that, I must thank you for using explicits to describe the president of the United States; something I always wanted to do but never had the courage. It is for this among many other reasons that I look up to you and admire your courage, your factual analysis, and your unapologetic in your face approach.
Your comments over the years regardless of which alias you used have largely contributed to my development as a young and successful man. I owe you a lot....
Please, keep posting .
The World is Listening.