✍The Kordahi affair: Saudi Arabia expels Lebanon's ambassador and halts imports

On 29 October 2021, after the broadcast of an interview recorded before his appointment in which the information minister George Kordahi said the Houthis were "defending themselves" in a "futile" war, Saudi Arabia expelled the Lebanese ambassador, recalled its own and halted all Lebanese imports, followed by Bahrain, Kuwait and the UAE; Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Martyr's Day counted the response a "pretext" for pressure on the party and rejected Kordahi's resignation, while the government stalled until he resigned on 3 December through French mediation.