{"id":295017,"date":"2019-11-02T12:26:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T08:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epress.am\/?p=295017"},"modified":"2019-11-02T12:27:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T08:27:21","slug":"lebanon-is-ours-yerevan-protestors-support-the-revolution-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2019\/11\/02\/lebanon-is-ours-yerevan-protestors-support-the-revolution-in-lebanon.html","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon is ours: Yerevan Protestors Support the Revolution in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Yerevan for Lebanon\/\u064a\u0631\u064a\u0641\u0627\u0646 \u0644\u0644\u0628\u0646\u0627\u0646\" width=\"618\" height=\"348\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w6yBIkK_Q4c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On October 25 2019, a number of citizens of Lebanon and Lebanese Armenians raised their voice of support to the protests taking place in Lebanon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the protestors told Epress.am that they feel good in Armenia, however a revolution in Lebanon was a long-desired wish; most of their relatives continue living there.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The protestors were dancing, chanting songs, the anthems of Lebanon and Armenia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lebanon is about to reach a popular-led revolution. Three days ago the Armed Forces announced that they will side by the people. For the 9<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> day, people are protesting against the government of Saad Hariri decried for corruption, &#8220;political obesity&#8221; and absolute neglect for the needs of laymen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The people that have flooded the towns of Lebanon are demanding the resignation of the corrupt government, formation of a new cabinet of &#8220;technocrats&#8221; and massive economic reforms. According to the World Bank more than one-fourth of Lebanon&#8217;s population lives below the poverty line. For a country with a population of 6 mln, the influx of 1.5mln refugees from war-torn Syria has added up to the existing problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Central streets continue to be under blockades in major cities of Lebanon and most notably in capital Beirut, educational institutions and a number of banks and other enterprises are shut down.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Population lives below the poverty line. For a country with a population of 6 mln, the influx of 1.5mln refugees from war-torn Syria has added up to the existing problems&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[75589,75588,75587],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}