{"id":110762,"date":"2017-11-11T13:45:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T08:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=110762"},"modified":"2017-11-11T13:45:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T08:15:19","slug":"pm-saad-hariri-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/pm-saad-hariri-held\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Saad Hariri held?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lebanon&#8217;s powerful Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah accused Saudi Arabia of detaining prime minister Saad Hariri and of asking the Shiite movement&#8217;s arch-foe Israel to launch strikes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hariri&#8217;s sudden resignation on November 4 in a statement made from Riyadh took the Lebanese political class by surprise and has sparked international concern.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States warned against using the tiny country as a &#8220;venue for proxy conflicts&#8221; and the United Nations said it was &#8220;essential no new conflict erupts in the region&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110763 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/lebanon-saudi-arabia-for-story-urgent-647_110917083303.jpg\" alt=\"PM Saad Hariri held?\" width=\"647\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">France called for Hariri to have &#8220;all his freedom of movement&#8221; amid rumours he was being held against his will.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The head of the Lebanese government is detained in Saudi Arabia, he is banned from returning to Lebanon until now,&#8221; Nasrallah said in a televised address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon&#8217;s powerful Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah accused Saudi Arabia of detaining prime minister Saad Hariri and of asking the Shiite movement&#8217;s arch-foe Israel to launch strikes. Hariri&#8217;s sudden resignation on November 4 in a statement made from Riyadh took the Lebanese political class by surprise and has sparked international concern. The United States warned against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,2],"tags":[56920,18196,12765,56918,56919,56921,1980],"class_list":["post-110762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-chief-hassan-nasrallah","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-pm-saad-hariri-held","tag-powerful-hezbollah","tag-prime-minister-saad-hariri","tag-saudi-arabia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Saad_Hariri1912s.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}