November 2, 2016 | Quoted by Benny Avni - New York Post

How Iran’s pet terrorists won Lebanon

‘You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” sang Bob Dylan. And this week, the winds of change in the Middle East kept blowing Iran’s way.

The latest: Lebanon’s selection Monday of Michel Aoun as president ended a long impasse that left Beirut’s presidential palace vacant for 2 ¹/₂ years. The victory of the 81-year-old former general seals — via its proxy Hezbollah — Iran’s dominance over Lebanon.

It’s the latest outcome of 1) President Obama’s attempt to reorder the Middle East through Iran’s empowerment and 2) Russia’s reassertion of power through an alliance with the mullahs.

As Tony Badran, the astute Lebanon watcher at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, notes, in the past, Hezbollah may have had a say — and even veto power — over the selection of president. But Aoun became “the first president that Hezbollah [chose] directly,” Badran says.

Read the full article here

Issues:

Hezbollah Iran Lebanon