"I am not going to hand over Hezbollah’s weapons nor end Hezbollah's existence. This is out of the question in Lebanon," says Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bouhabib ahead of trip to Kuwait to meet with Gulf state counterparts.
According to a report in Lebanese satellite television channel Al Mayadeen, Abed al-Karim Awadah, 35, managed to escape on Saturday morning from the Gaza detention center where he was being held.
For several seconds, graphics flashed on the screen, interrupting the broadcast to depict the leaders of the opposition group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq and call for the death of the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“I just wanted to make people happy and also increase my Instagram followers,” says one prankster identified only as Shahab.
"If the other party removes the unjust sanctions, there will be possibility to revive the pact," says Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
In just two years, the Mideast country's gross domestic product plummets by a whopping 58% and the Lebanese pound loses more than 90% of its value.
The UAE, which has seen none of the violence suffered by Israel some other Arab countries, was shaken by a Jan. 17 missile attack by Yemen's Houthi movement that killed three people in Abu Dhabi, the first such confirmed attack on its soil. On Monday, residents were awoken by the sounds of loud blasts over the coastal capital as the UAE intercepted another strike.
"I will say it is very hard for us to imagine getting back into the nuclear deal while four innocent Americans are being held hostage by Iran," says US Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley. Iran, however, responds by ruling out any US preconditions for reviving the 2015 nuclear deal.
During Saturday's demonstration by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, dozens of protesters chant "Death to the House of Saud" and wave posters of the leader of Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militia. Meanwhile, Dubai’s deputy police chief says senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar should be placed on the United Arab Emirates' most wanted list for supporting Houthi drone attacks against the UAE.
United Arab Emirates officials say two ballistic missiles were intercepted over the skies of the capital Abu Dhabi early Monday. Houthi military spokesman warns the UAE will continue to be a target “as long as attacks on the Yemeni people continue."
