{"id":1707,"date":"2017-11-13T07:57:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T08:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/iran-hopes-hariri-returns-to-lebanon-helps-restore-calm\/"},"modified":"2017-11-13T07:57:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T08:57:42","slug":"iran-hopes-hariri-returns-to-lebanon-helps-restore-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/iran-hopes-hariri-returns-to-lebanon-helps-restore-calm\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran \u2018hopes Hariri returns to Lebanon, helps restore calm\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iran said it hopes that Saad Hariri, who has resigned as Lebanon\u2019s prime minister, will return home from Saudi Arabia and help restore calm to his country by pursuing his resignation there.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tForeign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi said in a press briefing on Monday that Hariri\u2019s Sunday remark that he would return to Lebanon offered \u2018a flicker of hope\u2019 that calm would be restored in the Arab country, presstv.com reported.<\/p>\n

\n\tHariri announced his shock resignation in Saudi Arabia and in footage broadcast by a Saudi-owned television on November 2. The announcement is widely seen to have been made under Saudi influence, and Lebanese President Michel Aoun has refused to formally consider Hariri\u2019s resignation, saying he has to return first.<\/p>\n

\n\tLebanese government officials also said they believed Hariri was \u2018being held\u2019 in Saudi Arabia against his will, and signaled that his resignation had not been voluntary.<\/p>\n

\n\tSaudi Arabia has claimed that Hariri is a free man, and in a Sunday interview arranged in Riyadh, Hariri, too, claimed he was free to travel and would return to Lebanon \u2018within days.\u2019<\/p>\n

\n\tHariri said he is not being held captive in Saudi Arabia and will be returning to his country in the next few days.<\/p>\n

\n\tBack in 2016, Hariri reached an agreement with various political factions in Lebanon to form a unity government and become prime minister.<\/p>\n

\n\tQasemi said that had been the right course and hinted that Hariri\u2019s \u2018strange and unprecedented\u2019 move to announce his resignation from a third country had worked to disrupt calm in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe said that Iran perceived Hariri\u2019s resignation as \u2018suspicious\u2019 but was nevertheless hopeful that he would return to Lebanon and pursue his resignation there.<\/p>\n

\n\tHariri\u2019s Sunday \u201cremarks provide a flicker of hope that he would return and in so doing would help restore calm to Lebanon,\u201d the Iranian official said.<\/p>\n

\n\tQasemi also said Lebanon\u2019s internal affairs were its own business and Iran wished stability and security for the Arab country.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman also said that Iran\u2019s presence in Syria had been based on a request from the Damascus government.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOnce Daesh is routed, we (Iran and Syria) will continue cooperating, but the format of this strategic cooperation would change,\u201d Qasemi said.<\/p>\n

\n\tIran has been offering the Syrian government advisory military help since conflict erupted in the country in 2011.<\/p>\n

\n\tQasemi also announced that British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson would travel to Iran by the end of 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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