It hailed the agreement between the Western-backed majority and the Hezbollah-led opposition, backed by Syria and Iran, to elect a new president, establish a national unity cabinet and address Lebanon's electoral law.

Jan 31, 2023 · Lebanese sources indicated that Doha assured Aoun of international and Arab support for his candidacy. However, the problem lies in obtaining the agreement of the local Lebanese powers such as Hezbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement, whose president, Gebran Bassil, will be hosted in Doha to discuss the matter.

Hezbollah dismissed the accusations, calling the allegation a product of Jumblatt's imagination and saying that those who leveled them were scaremongering and simply parroting a US campaign against it and other groups which are resisting Israel.

May 12, 2008 · Michael Young, a political analyst in Lebanon, says the recent "Doha compromise" is not necessarily a cave-in to Hezbollah, but rather a "classic Levantine compromise."

Hezbollah (/ ˌ h ɛ z b ə ˈ l ɑː / HEZ-bə-LAH; [49] Arabic: حزب الله, romanized: Ḥizbu llāh, pronounced [ħizbuˈɫːaːh], lit. ' Party of God ') [b] is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary group.

Jun 1, 2008 · The Doha deal represents a major victory for Hezbollah, or Party of God, and its regional patrons, Iran and Syrian, and a setback for supporters of the Lebanese government backed by the Western powers, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt.

Jan 19, 2021 · Under the slogan of partnership and the reformulation of the political system (almusharaka wa i‘adat intaj al-sulta) and after eighteen months of a wavering political stalemate, Hizbullah affected change by force on the ground gaining its long awaited veto power in the Lebanese cabinet.

Dec 2, 2022 · After taking over the Shia scene, Hezbollah decided to go after the national political scene. One of its most dangerous accomplishments was to transform the democratic parliamentary system into a consensus system via the 2008 Doha agreement. The group’s “blocking third” invention enabled it to control key political decisions.

Oct 10, 2024 · According to a report on Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal, the Biden administration is pushing a plan to elect a new president in Lebanon, seeing the weakening of Hezbollah by Israel as an opportunity for serious reform in Beirut. But the administration is running into Arab opposition.

Jan 18, 2025 · Now the key players were all inside one building in Doha and the pace was frantic. ... Its Lebanon-based ally Hezbollah had been decimated and had agreed to a truce with Israel. Bashar al-Assad's ...