Autumn Suspense in Lebanon III: Prime Minister’s Office on the Brink

... security agencies. Signs predominantly point to the unlikelihood of another intervention in Lebanon by a party intending to punish Hezbollah as a partner of Iran. Predictably, throughout this period of “presidential vacuum,” Hariri urged his colleagues ... ... the crisis. We can deduce the kind of decision that Hariri himself envisioned from the fact that his political opponents – Michel Aoun’s supporters – boycotted the sessions of the Chamber of Deputies dozens of times. That is, in Hariri’s opinion,...