President Joseph Aoun, speaking with the Minister of State for Administrative Reform, Fadi Makki, in the Baabda Presidential Palace, on March 27, 2026. (Credit: taken from the presidency's X account)
It was already clear: The government was not going to fall on Thursday. But nothing guarantees that it will remain sheltered from political crises for long. The Foreign Ministry's decision to expel the designated Iranian ambassador, Mohammad Reza Sheibani, came in a context of increasingly tense relations between the authorities and the Amal-Hezbollah alliance. So much so that, for the very first time since the Cabinet's inception, the alliance played the boycott card at government sessions on Thursday. From our archives: History repeats itself? When Lebanon moved to expel Iran’s chargé d’affaires… in 1983 Even so, the Cabinet was able to convene, as Prime Minister Nawaf Salam counted on MP Fadi Makki, the Shiite minister independent of the Amal-Hezbollah alliance, to be present.In form, the authorities managed to contain...
It was already clear: The government was not going to fall on Thursday. But nothing guarantees that it will remain sheltered from political crises for long. The Foreign Ministry's decision to expel the designated Iranian ambassador, Mohammad Reza Sheibani, came in a context of increasingly tense relations between the authorities and the Amal-Hezbollah alliance. So much so that, for the very first time since the Cabinet's inception, the alliance played the boycott card at government sessions on Thursday. From our archives: History repeats itself? When Lebanon moved to expel Iran’s chargé d’affaires… in 1983 Even so, the Cabinet was able to convene, as Prime Minister Nawaf Salam counted on MP Fadi Makki, the Shiite minister independent of the Amal-Hezbollah alliance, to be present.In form, the authorities managed to...
