For more than two years Beirut’s deadlocked politicians had failed to pick a replacement for Michel Aoun, whose term as president ended ... and President Assad is no longer in power in Syria, a ...

"Iran supports a stable, secure and independent Lebanon ... came on the legislature’s 13th attempt to find a successor for Michel Aoun – not related – whose term ended in October 2022. Following his ...

Meantime, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei congratulated ... Lebanon has been functioning without a formal government since October 2022, when former president Michel Aoun left office ...

Aoun headed the country’s army since 2017 and was selected Thursday to succeed Michel Aoun ... collapse in 2021 and Israel’s barrage on the Iran-backed terrorist group. Aoun kept his troops ...

LEBANESE PRESIDENT Michel Aoun (right ... before seeing its role eclipsed by Iran and Hezbollah. Aoun, head of Lebanon's U.S.-backed army, would still need 86 votes because his election requires ...

(Bloomberg) -- Lebanon’s lawmakers elected army commander Joseph Aoun as the country’s first president in more than two years, picking a US-backed candidate in a sign of Iran’s waning ...

Lebanon had been without a president since the end of the tenure of former President Michel Aoun – who is not related to Joseph Aoun – in October 2022. The former president was backed by Iran ...

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"That was the battle that we have fought against Hezbollah and Iran's axis for many long years ... former Army commander Michel Aoun, after a 29-month vacuum in the presidency.

Hezbollah, its supply line to Iran severed by Assad's ousting ... Hezbollah's support was vital to propelling Michel Aoun to the presidency in 2016, as the group and factions which supported ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – President Masoud Pezeshkian expressed Iran ... Aoun is the latest military figure to ascend to the presidency, joining predecessors such as Fouad Chehab and Michel Sleiman.