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Recent events a good sign for Lebanon

Developments among parties in Lebanon as well as between Iran and the P5+1 might ultimately lead to solutions to Lebanon's current political stalemate.
Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addresses his supporters during a rare public appearance at an Ashoura ceremony in Beirut's southern suburbs November 3, 2014. REUTERS/Khalil Hassan (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION) - RTR4COLH
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Despite the prevailing political impasse in Lebanon, observers cannot but take into consideration a few events that should they come to pass have the potential to set in motion a number of solutions in regard to Lebanon.

The main features and symptoms of Lebanon's ongoing crisis are by now well known, boiling down to the presidential vacuum since May 25 and the failure to conduct parliamentary elections since June 2013, after the term of the parliament elected in 2009 expired. In theory, the latter impasse has been resolved by virtue of a parliamentary decision made in May 2013, when the majority of "not so legitimate" representatives tacked another 17 months onto its term. The extended term was supposed to have ended Nov. 20, 2014, but another parliamentary decision on Nov. 5 further extended the term until June 20, 2017.

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