{"id":51021,"date":"2017-11-07T06:32:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T06:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=51021"},"modified":"2017-11-07T06:32:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T06:32:12","slug":"saudi-arabia-says-lebanon-has-declared-war-against-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/saudi-arabia-says-lebanon-has-declared-war-against-kingdom.html","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia says Lebanon has declared WAR against kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Saudi Arabia says Lebanon has declared WAR against kingdom<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Saudi Arabia says Lebanon has declared WAR against kingdom:- SAUDI Arabia has accused Lebanon of declaring war following \u201caggression\u201d against the kingdom by Shia group Hezbollah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">As fears continue over the outbreak of World War 3 amid rising tensions between North Korea and the United States, Saudi Gulf affairs minister Thamer al-Sabhan said the Iran-backed Lebanese group had attacked his country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">In an interview with Al-Arabiya TV, he said the Lebanese administration would now be \u201cdealt with as a government declaring war on Saudi Arabia\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">He claimed Hezbollah\u2019s actions &#8220;were considered acts of a declaration of war against Saudi Arabia by Lebanon and 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case a platform for launching terrorism to our countries.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Earlier today, President Michel Aoun appealed for national unity following the resignation, which toppled a coalition government including Hezbollah and plunged Lebanon into political crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">And the latest developments came amid rising tensions in the region after a missile was fired towards Riyadh by Houthi rebels in Yemen on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Saudi Arabia is temporarily closing all air, land and sea ports to Yemen as it tries to stop arms flowing to the rebels from Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span 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