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Are Iran, Saudi Arabia about to reconcile?
▻http://al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/01/iran-saudi-salman-rafsanjani-condolence-letter-kuwait-fm.html

However, on Jan. 25 ISNA quoted the Lebanese daily an-Nahar as reporting that Kuwait is seeking to deliver a message to mediate between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

In this vein, the Reformist Etemaad daily published an analytical article on Jan. 25, arguing, “The high-ranking security and diplomatic officials of Iran have clearly welcomed the decrease of tensions and [establishment of] a good relationship with Saudi Arabia.”

Noting the visit of the Kuwaiti foreign minister to Tehran, Etemaad added, “The attempts to improve the relationship between Tehran and Riyadh which are underway indicate well that both parties have become aware of the necessity of solving the [outstanding] issues, and despite the intensifying attacks of the propaganda artillery of both parties, the secret diplomacy is ongoing.”

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Will the last newspaper editor to leave Beirut please turn out the lights - Middle East News - Haaretz
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The Lebanese newspaper As-Safir printed its final edition last Saturday. In a short video posted on YouTube, founder and editor-in-chief Talal Salman can be seen taking his scarf and turning off the lights in his office. Darkness falls as he leaves the building of the newspaper he founded in 1974.
As-Safir, published in Beirut, used to be one of the most important Arabic-language papers in Lebanon. It took a pro-Syrian stance (and, as a result, was suspected of being funded by the Assad regime) but in its early days, the daily opposed Syrian involvement in the long Lebanese civil war. When the first Lebanon war with Israel broke out in 1982, and when the confrontations between Israel and Hezbollah began, the newspaper stood behind the militant Shi’ite organization – even though Salman’s ideology was, and remained, pan-Arab and left-wing. Salman saw As-Safir as a Lebanese national paper, obliged to support the resistance to foreign occupation, especially that of Israel.
Salman blames the paper’s closure on financial reasons and its shrinking circulation figures. Even the newspaper’s website didn’t help to turns things around. As-Safir is a family newspaper: the CEO is one of Salman’s sons, his daughter is the managing editor, while another daughter runs the archive. Unlike other dailies in Lebanon, which enjoy the support of political parties or aid from foreign Arab governments, As-Safir had no stable financial base, especially after the Syrian regime – which probably did provide some funding in the past – ran into its own financial difficulties.
As-Safir is not the only Lebanese newspaper that has failed to go up against online competition. An-Nahar, which was founded in 1933 and was once the most prominent, best-selling paper in Lebanon, is also facing an uncertain future. It recently announced that nearly 100 staffers were to be laid off, and it has had problems paying salaries for over a year.

Turkey detains alleged killer of Russian pilot downed over Syria border — RT News
▻https://www.rt.com/news/337904-turkey-russian-pilot-killer

Turkish ultranationalist Alparslan Celik, who bragged about killing the pilot of a Russian Su-24 bomber downed by the Turkish Air Force on the Syrian border last November, has been arrested in his home country.
Celik was detained on Wednesday evening while he was dining at a restaurant in the city of Izmir in western Turkey, the Hurriyet newspaper reported.

The reasons for the arrest of the radical weren’t disclosed.

Celik was arrested along with 13 other people, according to the paper.
[…]
Celik is a Turkish citizen, the son of a former district mayor elected from Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and a member of the party’s unofficial youth military arm, Bozkurtlar.

Moscow demanded that Ankara arrest Celik and try him for the killing of the Russian pilot, and for being a member of an unlawful armed group.
However, Turkey ignored the demand and the ultranationalist has continued to give interviews and travel freely in Turkey and across the border into Syria.

.@haningdr (Anti-Hezbollah) An-Nahar columnist argues there is more than mere Hizb-Syria-Kuntar “fooling” going on with Druze
▻https://mideastwire.wordpress.com/2015/06/26/haningdr-anti-hezbollah-an-nahar-columnist-argues-there-is-mo

Une voix discordante au sein des journalistes 14 mars.

An interesting alternative take to Tony Badran’s (always) hardline approach today at NOW to think everything that “helps” hezbollah, iran or Syria is a conspiracy by them, somehow, and doesn’t have important roots in real dynamics on the ground. Translated today by our mideastwire.com:

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“… However, the action of the Israeli Druze to support their brothers in Syria sabotaged Israel’s plans, embarrassed Israel, provoked it, and forced it to make a difficult choice: Either to side by a major part of its population, or to proceed with providing support to those parties that the Israeli Druze see as enemies of theirs in order to preserve its security interests. It is not hard to predict Israel’s choice. Indeed, no matter how strong the “blood pact” with the Israeli Druze is, it is not more important than its security interests. ”

Gemayel: Lebanon should stand with Saudi Arabia - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
▻http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2015/04/lebanon-amin-gemayel-president-vacuum-aoun-hezbollah.html

Did your dialogue with Hezbollah stop?

Gemayel: No, it did not stop. But it is happening away from the spotlight as long as the main matters are not yet ripe for resolution. But this dialogue and the dialogue between Hezbollah and the Future Movement protects the future.

An-Nahar: What are you discussing in the dialogue?

Gemayel: Two topics: the first is a principle that we cannot achieve in the current regional circumstances. It is about the situation in Syria and Hezbollah’s involvement in the war there, and the issue of weapons. The second deals with other points related to management, transparency, public affairs, and maintaining security and stability. Maintaining a dialogue with the basic components of Lebanese society is useful, and this is our choice. Warding off the threat to the [Lebanese] entity is achieved by putting the internal situation in order, through dialogue, and convincing everyone that the Lebanese mosaic cannot afford to get involved in the region’s conflicts. And if this mosaic is broken up, it would be very difficult to put back together, and everyone will pay the consequences.

We feel, through the political dialogues and the current political discourse, that we are being heard. We feel that a solution will require some time. These matters will be addressed when the suitable historic, national and regional moment arrives. The door is not closed. Looking at Hezbollah’s path since 1982, we notice a development in its behavior, starting from its full rejection of the Lebanese state by rejecting parliamentary and Cabinet participation, to participating in the state and in parliament, the Cabinet and the administration. [Hezbollah] is now [active] in daily administrative issues. The more [Hezbollah], or anyone else, gets involved in the Lebanese structure, the more it becomes convinced of the need to preserve it and the more it gets engaged in the democratic state project. This is not the first experience in Lebanon’s modern history.

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Lebanese Newspapers Headlines for Monday 27/10/2014
Mon 27 Oct 2014 at 06:23
NNA
▻http://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/35450/Lebanese-Newspapers-Headlines-for-Monday-27-10-2014

AN-NAHAR: Army repels terrorists related to “Nusra”

Salam: Confrontation decision to impose order is taken and supported

ASSAFIR: Army thwarts terror scheme in north...And Kahwagi: We won’t retreat

Army breaks into strife and protects Lebanon, north

AL-MUSTAQBAL: Humanitarian corridors to evacuate wounded, civilians and city’s figures back Army and call for citizens’ neutralization

Tripoli: Truce before firmness

AL-AKHBAR: Collapse of north’s emirate
Army continues its battle and Hariri confirms to Kahwagi his support to crush terrorist

THE DAILY STAR: Army offensive signals open-ended war

–---Lebanon stood firmly behind its Army in its war against homegrown terrorism Sunday as the death toll from three days of pitched battles between troops and jihadists rose to at least 28.

The Army’s anti-terror push, backed by the country’s political leaders, heralded an open-ended confrontation with militants inspired by ISIS and Nusra Front who are fighting to establish a foothold in the multi-sectarian country.

Clashes erupt at Palestinian teen’s funeral

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Abbas Ibrahim après l’attentat meurtrier de Dahr el-Baïdar : « Nous en avons réchappé miraculeusement »
▻http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/872731/liban-resurgence-des-menaces-securitaires-une-conference-du-mouvement

Ce matin, le quotidien an-Nahar rapportait que des groupes armés liés aux Brigades Abdallah Azzam, basés dans le camp palestinien de Aïn el-Héloué (Liban-sud), projetaient d’assassiner un haut responsable sécuritaire libanais. Se basant sur une note obtenue du Mossad (services de renseignements israéliens), la journaliste d’origine libanaise Julia Abou Araj (qui détient la nationalité israélienne depuis 2000) de la chaîne télévisée israélienne I 24, avait indiqué que la cible d’une éventuelle opération serait le directeur général de la Sûreté générale. Contacté par le quotidien libanais, un responsable de la Sûreté générale avait affirmé avoir consulté le document en question, estimant que les informations qu’il contenait étaient crédibles et se recoupaient avec d’autres informations en possession de son service de sécurité.

Lebanon : Iranian traces in attempted assassination of Christian leader | Al Bawaba
►http://www.albawaba.com/main-headlines/lebanon-iranian-traces-attempted-assassination-christian-leader-419956

Citing sources close to the investigation into Wednesday’s attempted assassination of Samir Geagea, Lebanon’s an-Nahar newspaper said that the shooting was carried out by snipers. They targeted the head of the Lebanese Forces (LF) some 1.5 km from the LF’s HQ in Meerab. The newspaper also reported that the initial probe indicated that the weapon used by the snipers is “very sophisticated” and “virtually unavailable in Lebanon”. It concluded attackers used the “Steyr HS.50, with the 12.7mm caliber”, a sniper rifle manufactured in Austria.

Vienna was criticized in 2006 by London and Washington for having sold over 800 of these rifles to Tehran, according to The Telegraph. The British newspaper said that U.S. forces had found 100 of these Austrian assault rifles in a weapons cache belonging to Iraqi insurgents in Baghdad. These weapons were part of the cargo sent by Austria to Iran, reported the newspaper, quoting U.S. security sources.

Demain : la crosse de ces fusils de snipers portent une dédicace personnelle de Bashar Assad. J’aime quand les enquêtes vont (très) vite.

#Electricité au #Liban : vers une égalité dans la pénurie ?

THE DAILY STAR : : Business : : Lebanon : : Bassil calls on EDL to apply fair distribution of power
►http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/Lebanon/2012/Jan-24/160898-bassil-calls-on-edl-to-apply-fair-distribution-of-power.ashx#ax

Energy and Water Minister Jibran Bassil has urged state-run Electricite du Liban to distribute electricity equally throughout the country and called on citizens receiving a poor service to protest and demand their rights, An-Nahar reported Tuesday.

The daily newspaper quoted Bassil as requesting that "Electricite du Liban use an equality [formula] in distributing electricity to all areas compared to Beirut as it is not acceptable for Beirut to be fed with 21 hours of electricity while Sin el-Fil gets only 11 hours.”

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Bassil proposed that one way to reduce the rationing was to make Beirut receive the same share of power as other Lebanese regions.

However, this proposal was dismissed by most politicians under the pretext that Beirut was the capital of the country.

peut être parce que la plupart d’entre eux y habitent, sans parler de leur famille, du siège de leurs entreprises, etc.

►http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/Lebanon/2012/Jan-24/160876-edl-boosts-power-production-to-1500-mw-but-far-short-of-demand.