Lebanese welcome for Ahmadinejad likely to mean continued cutoff in US aid
The warm welcome to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Lebanon this week has infuriated key members of the US Congress, making it likely that the cutoff of American military aid to Lebanon, which was initiated last summer, will continue. Sources in the US Congress said Thursday that the warm formal welcome Lebanon has extended to Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has convinced key representatives in Congress to continue the freeze on military aid to Lebanon. Lebanese daily An-Nahar reported that Reps. Howard Berman and Nita Lowey – the respective chairs of the Foreign Relations Committee and Subcommittee on Foreign Appropriations – are now “vehemently” opposed to lifting the moratorium.I hope this means that Berman and Lowey and other Democrats in Congress will be equally opposed when President Obama returns to his efforts to 'engage' Syria, which has also warmly welcomed Ahmadinejad - and worse.
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The congressmen are now reportedly angry not just over Ahmadinejad's visit to Lebanon but also by the fact that it began with the signing of 16 agreements for cooperation between Iran and Lebanon, including mutual assistance in the fields of energy and finance.
Nawwaf Moussawi, a senior Hizbullah leader and member of the Lebanese parliament, recently called on the Beirut government to forget about obtaining ”conditional” American military aid. He suggested the LAF look instead to Syria, Iran and countries like Russia and China for weapons and training.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:21 PM
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A horrible week for the Obama Administration.
And the mid term elections are less than two weeks away!
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