{"id":1048,"date":"2017-11-16T23:39:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T23:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2017-11-16T23:39:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T23:39:25","slug":"lebanon-again-dangerously-at-mercy-of-saudi-arabia-iran-rivalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2017\/11\/16\/lebanon-again-dangerously-at-mercy-of-saudi-arabia-iran-rivalry\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon again dangerously at mercy of Saudi Arabia-Iran rivalry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the start, the case of the missing Lebanese prime minister strayed wildly from the mainstream of the Middle East&#8217;s usual plots.<\/p>\n<p>Everything that has followed Saad Hariri&#8217;s sudden and reportedly forced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/lebanese-prime-minister-resigns-amid-tensions-with-hezbollah-1.4387741\">resignation<\/a> last week has struck the same startling tenor: his apparent house arrest, the Saudi Arabia-Lebanon mutual accusations of declaring war, the French president&#8217;s sudden in-person intervention.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the start, the case of the missing Lebanese prime minister strayed wildly from the mainstream of the Middle East&#8217;s usual plots. Everything that has followed Saad Hariri&#8217;s sudden and reportedly forced resignation last week has struck the same startling tenor: his apparent house arrest, the Saudi Arabia-Lebanon mutual accusations of declaring war, the French president&#8217;s sudden in-person intervention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}