Thread by @SaadAbedine

"Say his excellency. How dare you say #Aoun is behind #Lebanon's 🇱🇧 collapse? OK tell me who killed Khashoggi?"

Michel Aoun dismissed remarks made by caretaker Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe about Gulf countries, “do not reflect my stances nor the stance of the Lebanese state."

#Lebanon's 🇱🇧 @Mofalebanon caretaker Foreign Minister Charbel blames #Saudi 🇸🇦 & the GCC for #ISIS in #Syria 🇸🇾 & #Iraq 🇮🇶, defends #Iran 🇮🇷 & #Hezbollah

President Aoun rushes to clean Wehbe’s mess, says "his remarks don’t reflect the state’s position"

https://twitter.com/LBpresidency/status/1394545947062022145

#Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 condemns Lebanese foreign minister @Mofalebanon comments, summons #Lebanon 🇱🇧 ambassador to express condemnation of comments made by Lebanese foreign minister Charbel calling Saudis "a bunch of Bedouins & #ISIS backers etc"

https://twitter.com/EKH_brk/status/1394644483514503170

#Saudi 🇸🇦 Foreign Ministry condemns the remarks made by #Lebanon 🇱🇧 caretaker foreign minister that insulted Saudi Arabia & the wider Gulf region, said "his remarks do NOT comply with diplomatic norms & the brotherly relations between the two countries"

#Saudi 🇸🇦 foreign ministry summons #Lebanon 🇱🇧 ambassador over comments by caretaker foreign minister Charbel Wehbe who threatened to stoke new tensions in a television interview on Monday, when he appeared to blame Gulf states for the rise of #ISIS in #Iraq 🇮🇶 & #Syria 🇸🇾

UAE 🇦🇪 summons Lebanese ambassador, hands him official protest note denouncing Lebanon's 🇱🇧 foreign minister's @Mofalebanon statements, "stressing that they are inconsistent with diplomatic norms", UAE state news agency

https://twitter.com/wamnews/status/1394690630836752388

My bad. I was only defending zee president

#Lebanon's 🇱🇧 acting foreign minister Charbel Wehbe issues an apology for "inappropriate expressions" rejecting the "unacceptable offenses directed at His Excellency the President" after insulting #Saudi 🇸🇦

https://twitter.com/Mofalebanon/status/1394637075778088964

#Kuwait 🇰🇼 on Tuesday summoned the Lebanese embassy's charge d'affaires to hand him an official protest note condemning #Lebanon's 🇱🇧 foreign minister's "insults", Kuwait's foreign ministry said in a statement

https://twitter.com/MOFAKuwait/status/1394733655675768832

#Bahrain 🇧🇭 strongly condemned the offensive statements made by #Lebanon 🇱🇧 Foreign Minister in the caretaker government, Charbel Wehbe, during a television interview against #Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦, its people & the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council
bna.bh/en/Bahraincond…

#Lebanon 🇱🇧 racist POS caretaker foreign minister Charbel Wehbe stepped down & was swiftly replaced after comments he made irked #Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 & other Arab GCC nations

https://twitter.com/lbpresidency/status/1394907472654123010