Lebanese President Joseph Aoun this week appointed Nawaf Salam as the country’s new Prime Minister – just one week after Mr Aoun himself was elected by Parliament – signaling a further shift away from Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’ and toward an emerging pro-West bloc backed by the United States, France, and Saudi Arabia.
It also ends more than two years of political paralysis in the country that left it with a caretaker government that was essentially unable to pass any laws. (CONTINUED - 374 WORDS)
