The Permanent War in the Suburbs of Beirut: “I Would Go to Another Planet if that Would Give Me Peace”

El Pais

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On one of the main routes out of Dahiye, the name of the Bahraini suburbs that are now at the heart of Middle Eastern geopolitics, a succession of lanterns adorned with the same photograph of Iran’s penultimate supreme leader, the late Ali Jamenei, seem to fire those who leave the area. A few meters further, when the city of Beirut begins, the iconography that floods Dahiye with the faces of Iranian leaders and Hezbollah — its Lebanese allies — …