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Can Lebanon handle truth about Hariri, Saudi Arabia?

Saad Hariri faces his own court of conscience; US-Iran relations revert to axis of evil days.

Posters depicting Saad al-Hariri, who announced his resignation as Lebanon's prime minister from Saudi Arabia, is seen at airport high way in Beirut, Lebanon November 19, 2017. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi - RC119900A480
Posters depicting Saad Hariri, who announced his resignation as Lebanon's prime minister from Saudi Arabia, are seen along an airport highway in Beirut, Lebanon, Nov. 19, 2017. — REUTERS/Jamal Saidi

Hariri’s transformative journey: “Unable to convince anybody” 

“I am unable to convince anybody that you aren't a prisoner in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, that you're not a hostage, that you're not under house arrest even though we are in your own house," said Paula Yacoubian in her interview with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri last week. “Even I myself am being accused of being part of this theater.”

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