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Hezbollah has had a rather surprising but necessary defeat in the Lebanese elections, pushing them to the sidelines of diplomacy and governance. Finally, the Iran based military group has lost its parliamentary majority. The political party is considered to be a terrorist organization and was already sanctioned by the UK and the United States. While the Lebanese forces have taken on most of the Christian seats, Hezbollah and its main Shiite ally are likely to retain the 27 seats allocated to the sect. Indeed, the elections have proved that the political elite are no more welcome and needed to run the country. People’s vote has demanded a change in leadership. Results will still take time between Sunday and today to be declared in full. However, the wave of change can be felt. Among the high-profile losers was leading Hezbollah ally and deputy parliament speaker Elie Ferzli, 72, who was ousted by a candidate backed by Druze leader Walid Jumblatt. Hezbollah-allied Druze politicia...

The growing amity seems to be becoming a reason that Hezbollah as a party in Lebanon might be losing their power and relevance. Regional realignment seems to be adding up towards November 29 running up of the election time and the relevance of the Iran backed party seems to be becoming dim. Of the major regional development seems to be factors like alleged actions by Iran’s proxies in Iraq. These include assassination attempt against Prime Minister Mustafa Al Kadhimi as well as Hezbollah’s activities in Lebanon. And then angry comments made by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah were quickly proven wrong and not gone down well with Lebanese either. Nasrallah has said he was in the loop about recent Saudi-Iranian talks in Iraq. He claimed that they did not mention “Lebanon or Hezbollah, neither with regards to Yemen or other issues”. However, Nasrallah’s claim reflects Hezbollah’s anxiety over deals taking place behind its back. So what are the deals happening behind its back? For o...

The Lebanese based Hezbollah Party is again making great use of its opportunity to exploit its public in a time of crises Before anyone can get down to protesting, it’s a laughable thought for me that a terrorist organization like Hezbollah should be indulging itself into supermarket business. There is news doing rounds that indeed Hezbollah is trying to create a parallel economy across the south of Lebanon. One of the worst political parties and responsible for creating situations of mass murder and unrest in Lebanon, they have been repeatedly financed by Iran to carry out their terrorist activities. Can one really imagine such people to be into the business of building supermarkets? But the irony of the matter is that they are building supermarkets in Lebanon.   It is probably the right time for them to take advantage of a collapsing economy that cannot keep up on its own feet anymore. The few supermarkets are closing due to lack of supplies, banks have no hard currency to hand o...