Webinar to Discuss Lebanon Crisis
According to the Iranian Cultural Center in Lebanon, the Institute for Islamic World Future Studies will organize the webinar in cooperation with the Iranian Society for Regional Studies and the Iranian Cultural Center in Lebanon.
Iran’s Cultural Attaché Abbas Khameyar and a former Iranian ambassador to Lebanon Ahmad Dastmalchian will be among the speakers at the online forum.
Those interested can watch the webinar at 7 PM on Wednesday via Skype at https://join.skype.com/deiEEYzWtHcQ.
Lebanon has been mired since late 2019 in a deep economic and financial crisis, exacerbated by a political deadlock.
The economic and financial crisis is the gravest threat to the country’s stability since the 15-year civil war ended in 1990.
Lebanese officials have admitted that major economic restructuring would be necessary to make the country’s economy viable again, however, previous prime ministers have described them as “painful”.
Observers say the US and the Europeans primarily have their own interests at heart through their reform demands at the expense of Lebanon's unity which is a highly sensitive issue because of its sectarian make-up.
The crisis is mostly linked to the sanctions that the United States and its allies have imposed on Lebanon as well as foreign intervention in the Arab nation’s domestic affairs.
