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Lebanon Squeezed Between Saudi Arabia and Iran

Lebanon Squeezed Between Saudi Arabia and Iran
Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia at the Oval Office at the White House May 13, 2015 in Washington, DC. Olivier Douliery - Pool/Getty Images
David Kilgour
David Kilgour
Human Right Advocate and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
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Simmering tension between the governments of tiny Lebanon (pop. 6m), the most religiously diverse country in the Middle East, and regional super power Saudi Arabia (pop. 32m) has escalated recently, worsening the already bad security situation across the region.

On Nov. 4, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, a longtime beneficiary of Saudi support, astonished many after vanishing two weeks earlier and then announcing his resignation while in Saudi Arabia.

David Kilgour
David Kilgour
Human Right Advocate and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
David Kilgour, J.D., former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific, senior member of the Canadian Parliament and nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work related to the investigation of forced organ harvesting crimes against Falun Gong practitioners in China, He was a Crowne Prosecutor and longtime expert commentator of the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong and human rights issues in Africa. He co-authored Bloody Harvest: Killed for Their Organs and La Mission au Rwanda.