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Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, having reversed his previous decision to resign, is now demanding that his governing partners – President Michel Aoun and Hezbollah – commit to regional neutrality. But with Saudi-Iranian tensions escalating, can Lebanon avoid becoming a new front in the two sides’ ongoing proxy war.
Oct 7, 2014 warns of sectarian conflict spreading to Lebanon, fueled by a worsening economy.
Nov 17, 2017 worries that Lebanon will become the next battlefield between the Middle East's Sunni and Shia powers.
Nov 28, 2017 fears that Lebanon could find itself at the center of another Saudi-Iranian proxy war in the region.
US President Donald Trump once seemed to recognize that, as long as the US remains mired in endless wars in the Middle East, it will be unable to address in a meaningful way the threat China poses. But that has not stopped him from perpetuating the cycle of self-defeating American interventionism in the Middle East.
