Lebanon: Activists Call for Demonstrations to Protest against   Deteriorating Living Conditions  

Many Lebanese activists called for demonstrations and protests against the deteriorating economic conditions in the country.

The murky economic situation was accompanied by the closure of many roads across the country.

Protesters burn tires and set up barriers in various Lebanese regions.

This comes as the exchange rate of the dollar on the Lebanese black market reaching about 10500 Lebanese liras to one dollar, as Lebanon is witnessing the worst economic crisis in its modern history.

Some called for early parliamentary elections, and others called to take to the streets and protest.

The views and calls for demonstrations of the Lebanese people swept the Twitter site, using the hashtag # Lebanon_Rising.

Why do you want someone to go down before you or invite you to go and demand your rights? No one should be ashamed to go down to the street and all people are supposed to go down without a card.

A few days ago, the dollar broke the almost fixed margin that ranged between 8000 and 8500 Lebanese pounds per dollar, in the past weeks.

The American embassy in Beirut denied the validity of media reports about the United States ’intention to impose sanctions on the governor of the Banque du Liban, Riad Salameh.

According to private sources, Bloomberg had previously reported that the administration of the US President, Joe Biden, was considering imposing sanctions on Governor of the Banque du Liban against the background of investigations into transferring funds abroad.

According to the sources, Biden administration officials discussed the possibility of taking coordinated measures with European partners towards Salameh, who has been chairing the Central Bank of Lebanon for 28 years.

And discussions centered around freezing his assets abroad and limiting his financial capabilities, but the final decision in this regard has not yet been taken.