{"id":1689,"date":"2017-11-12T05:50:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T06:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/grim-hariri-stands-in-queue-to-salute-saudi-king-video\/"},"modified":"2017-11-12T05:50:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T06:50:01","slug":"grim-hariri-stands-in-queue-to-salute-saudi-king-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/grim-hariri-stands-in-queue-to-salute-saudi-king-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Grim Hariri stands in queue to salute Saudi king (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Footage broadcast on the Saudi Arabia state television shows Saad Hariri, who has been in the kingdom since controversially resigning there as Lebanon\u2019s prime minister, waiting in a queue to salute the monarch.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tThe video aired on Saturday showed officials taking turns to bow and kiss King Salman\u2019s hand after his return from Medina. Hariri was standing in line and leaned over to press his face to that of the king, without completing the gesture with a customary kiss on the shoulder, presstv.com reported.<\/p>\n

\n\tA seemingly stressed-out Hariri announced his resignation in Riyadh last Saturday, shortly after traveling to Saudi Arabia. The televised announcement saw Hariri reading out from a statement and at times looking beyond the camera as if at individuals watching over him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has announced his resignation in a speech broadcast from Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

\n\tHariri\u2019s government shares power with the Hezbollah resistance movement. During the resignation video, however, he accused Hezbollah and Iran of \u2018interference\u2019 in the region.<\/p>\n

\n\tLebanese President Michel Aoun has said Hariri has been \u2018kidnapped\u2019 by Saudi Arabia, and questioned why he has not been back yet.<\/p>\n

\n\tMany regional and international players are not convinced either by the precipitate course of developments. The Islamic Republic has called the resignation a US-Saudi-Zionist plot to sow yet more unrest in the region.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2018Saudi unhappy with Hariri-Hezbollah ties\u2019<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Saturday, REUTERS quoted sources close to Hariri as saying that Saudi Arabia “has concluded that the prime minister had to go because he was unwilling to confront Hezbollah.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHezbollah enjoys significant military and political clout in Lebanon after helping the country fight off several Israeli wars and shattering Tel Aviv’s myth of invincibility in the eyes of many Arabs.<\/p>\n

\n\tHariri had traveled to Riyadh for meeting with various officials a few days before his fateful visit.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat happened in those meetings, I believe, is that (Hariri) revealed his position on how to deal with Hezbollah in Lebanon: That confrontation would destabilize the country. I think they didn\u2019t like what they heard,\u201d said one of the sources.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Hariri sources said Hariri believed he had convinced Saudi officials of the need to maintain an entente with Hezbollah for the sake of Lebanon\u2019s stability,\u201d REUTERS reported.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter Hariri stepped down, Riyadh asked its citizens to leave Lebanon and not travel to the country. Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah then said the kingdom had called on Israel to attack Lebanon, which has already fought off several wars with Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Lebanese prime minister apparently did not have any notion of what was coming as he had told officials at home that he would be back.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe unnamed sources said soon after his plane touched down in Riyadh, Hariri sensed something was amiss, noting that he had not received a typical honorable reception featuring a line-up of Saudi princes or ministry officials, and had his phone taken away.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere was no one waiting for him,\u201d said a source close to the prime minister. \u201cFrom the moment he arrived they (the Saudis) showed no respect for the man,\u201d another senior Lebanese political source said.<\/p>\n

\n\tHariri was presented with his resignation speech to read on television, the source said, according to REUTERS.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his speech, he said the Arab world would \u201ccut off the hands that wickedly extend to it.\u201d One source said the tone was not characteristic of the Lebanese statesman.<\/p>\n

\n\tThose contacting him since resignation have said he is apprehensive, reluctant to say anything beyond \u2018I am fine,\u2019 and would only say \u2018Inshallah (God willing)\u2019 if asked when he would be back.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Lebanese official is in the Saudi capital with his wife and family. Observers say even if he returned to Lebanon, Saudi Arabia could still hold his family \u2018hostage.\u2019<\/p>\n

\n\tMembers of Hariri’s Future Movement party had planned demonstrations for Saturday afternoon to show their support for the premier, but the plans were later canceled.<\/p>\n

\n\tReports said no reason had been given for the cancellation, and cited a spokeswoman for Hariri as saying on Sunday that there were no indications as to when he would return to Lebanon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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