Israeli escalation: Sistani steps in to protect Lebanon’s Shiites

Since Sunday’s strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, an Israeli escalation against Hezbollah appears increasingly inevitable. Yet international contacts are ongoing in an effort to reach a formula that would spare the region a new war. To do so, it is necessary to identify points of convergence between the United States and Iran.A few days before Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS)’s visit to Washington and his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, two Iranian delegations traveled to Saudi Arabia to explore the possibility of reviving negotiations with the Americans with the aim of reaching an agreement, L’Orient-Le Jour learned from consistent diplomatic sources. Read more here Strike on Tabataba'i in Beirut southern suburbs: A warning (mainly) to Hezbollah's hardline faction The Iranians delivered to MBS a message...