By any standard imaginable, Lebanese (ex-) Prime Minister Saad Hariri's Sunday interview on the television station he owns – Future TV – was positively cringe-inducing. Speaking to journalist Paula Yacoubian, Hariri sought to dispel accusations made from the highest levels of the government he once headed – including his own Sunni allies – that he
Interview with Lebanon PM Hariri Stokes Fears of Captivity in Saudi Arabia
Lebanon’s President Aoun said the interview was a Saudi move to sow “confusion, and we cannot take it as true or made by Hariri’s own free will.”