Lebanon is set to investigate death threats against Saudi Embassy

Agencies | Beirut                                                                        

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

Lebanon’s interior minister yesterday asked security forces to investigate death threats against the Saudi Embassy in Lebanon after Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Lebanon shared a recording containing such threats on his Twitter account.

Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi said his order was based on his “concern for Lebanon’s interest and security and good relations with brotherly nations, especially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”, a ministry statement said.

Saudi Ambassador Walid Al Bukhari earlier shared a tweet from a pro-Saudi account containing a recording by a man, who the interior ministry believes to be a Saudi national living in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a stronghold of Iran-backed Hezbollah.

The interior ministry statement said he was “wanted by Saudi authorities for terrorist crimes”. The man says that if anything happens to any member of his family, “no employee at the Saudi Embassy will remain alive... I will annihilate everyone in the Saudi Embassy, everyone who is related to the Saudi Embassy.”