Berri Hopes 'Marathon' Nuke Deal Would Resolve Lebanon's Crisis
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Speaker Nabih Berri has described the negotiations between Iran and world powers on its nuclear program as “the biggest political and diplomatic marathon in history,” hoping that Lebanon would benefit from them.
The two sides sealed a breakthrough agreement in Switzerland on Thursday outlining limits on Iran's nuclear program to keep it from being able to produce atomic weapons.
The Islamic Republic was promised an end to years of crippling economic sanctions, but only if negotiators transform the plan into a comprehensive pact.
They will try to do that in the next three months.
“The agreement is an important step and would help resolve crises in the region,” Berri told his visitors, according to al-Joumhouria newspaper published on Friday.
“Lebanon hopes that there would be more interest in resolving its crisis which … is less complicated than the rest of the crises” in the region, he said.
Baabda Palace has been vacant since President Michel Suleiman's six-year term ended in May last year.
Differences between the March 8 and 14 alliances have caused a lack of quorum at parliamentary sessions aimed at electing a new head of state.
03 April 2015, 08:50
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The real crisis in Lebanon ya Berri is HA's weapons. And this is more complicated than all the other crises in the Middle East.
03 April 2015, 08:55
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this deal will have no effect on regional issues caused by the intervention of iran in arab countries
03 April 2015, 14:16
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Mr. Berri says that a repeal of Article 24 of the Lebanese Constitution is right around the corner, and peace is coming to Lebanon!
03 April 2015, 16:17
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Truly what a profoundly shameful public statement by a so-called leader to say that the very fate of our country Lebanon depends on the deals and counter deals made by his Iranian masters. Not only is Berri a shameless , blatant and chronic thief, but he is also a real traitor, a traitor who accepts to say in such public view that Lebanon is not only the country whose resources he participated in pilfering to the bone-marrow, but also to tell the whole world that indeed Lebanon is nothing more than one of the many bargaining chips put on the table by Iran. Sadly enough, there are many people in Lebanon who are like Berri, slaves, dogs who live from the breadcrumbs that fall from the table of their occupier. Yet tragically, these very same people have no qualms to call their opponents by those same things that they practice so routinely. Berri represents that extremely wall of shame, only people devoid of all honor and dignity will behave like the likes of Berri.
03 April 2015, 22:45
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Stop hoping that the outside world will magically solve Lebanon's problem. That way nothing will never be solved.
04 April 2015, 13:40
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Bravo Maroun, exactly as the saying goes, "If you dress a monkey in a suit, that doesn't make him a human being".
