黎巴嫩总理萨阿德·哈里里宣布，在威胁该国统治精英的大规模抗议活动中，他打算辞职。

在未来运动领导人将下台的传言中，哈里里周二发表了电视讲话，承认在与敌对党派进行了近两周的谈判后，“陷入了死胡同”。他说他将前往巴卜达宫向黎巴嫩总统迈克尔·奥恩递交辞呈。

哈里里讲话时，抗议者聚集在贝鲁特和地中海中东国家的多个城市，可以听到欢呼。然而，作为他们决心让所有领导人下台的标志，可以听到示威者高喊，“所有人都意味着所有人”。

随着逊尼派穆斯林占该国最高政治代表人数的三分之一的人离开，现在的压力落在奥恩身上，他主要代表基督徒参加自由爱国运动，同时也是什叶派穆斯林阿玛尔运动的长期议长纳比·贝里。

10月29日，黎巴嫩反政府抗议者在贝鲁特庆祝总理萨阿德·哈里里辞职。

哈里里之前提出辞职2017年11月，援引对该国安全部队有争议的涉嫌暗杀阴谋的了解。他的父亲，已故总理拉菲克·哈里里在2005年一次官方未解决的爆炸事件中被暗杀，这次爆炸引发了大规模抗议，推翻了叙利亚支持的政府，该政府自该国15年内战结束以来一直掌权。

自上次大起义以来，黎巴嫩的政治结构基本上没有变化，两个主要集团控制着scene⁠—March 8日和3月14日，这两个集团是以当时支持和反对政府的对立抗议的日期命名的。两者都代表一系列政党，前者包括奥恩的自由爱国运动和贝里的阿马尔运动，后者包括哈里里的未来运动。

3月8日在什叶派穆斯林真主党运动的大力推动下，近年来取得了重大进展。该组织领导人哈桑·纳斯鲁拉秘书长指挥一支强大的民兵队伍，该民兵队伍在伊朗的支持下组建，反对以色列。以色列两次入侵黎巴嫩，并与真主党发生跨界冲突。

虽然贝里和外交部长吉卜兰·巴西尔(Gebran Bassil)自2014年以来一直是抗议者辞职呼声中最持久的目标之一，但纳斯鲁拉也被许多人要求下台。然而，其他人特别将纳斯鲁拉排除在辞职之外，认为他的职位独一无二，代表了迄今为止主要是街头统一叛乱的要求中的潜在分裂。

那些参加示威的人指责政府不当处理黎巴嫩四面楚歌的经济，包括债务上升和迫在眉睫的货币危机，以及使腐败瘫痪修复该国基础设施的努力。

上周，3月14日的另一个主要数字似乎屈服于持续的抗议活动。黎巴嫩武装部队领导人萨米尔·吉亚(Samir Geagea)呼吁该党的四名部长辞职，因为政府正在努力应对。

LEBANON'S PRIME MINISTER SAAD AL-HARIRI RESIGNS AMID MASS PROTESTS THREATENING LEADERS

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri has announced his intention to resign amid mass protests threatening the country's ruling elite.

Amid rumors that the Future Movement leader would step down, Hariri offered a televised address Tuesday in which he admitted to having "reached a dead end" after nearly two weeks of talks with rival parties. He said he would be heading to Baabda Palace to submit his resignation to Lebanese President Michael Aoun.

As Hariri spoke, protesters gathered across Beirut and in multiple cities across the Mediterranean Middle Eastern nation could be heard cheering. In a sign of their determination for all leaders to step down, however, demonstrators could be heard chanting, "all of them means all of them."

With the Sunni Muslim third of the country's top level of political representation departing, the pressure is now on Aoun, who largely represents Christians with his Free Patriotic Movement, and longtime Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, head of the Shiite Muslim Amal Movement.

Lebanese anti-government protesters celebrate the resignation of Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri in Beirut on October 29 on the 13th day of anti-government protests.

Hariri previously offered his resignation in November 2017, citing knowledge of an alleged assassination plot that was disputed by the country's security forces. His father, late Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri was assassinated in 2005 in an officially unsolved bombing that set off mass protests that ousted a Syria-backed administration in charge since the end of the country's 15-year civil war.

Lebanon's political makeup has largely remained unchanged since that last major uprising, with two major blocs dominating the scene⁠—March 8 and March 14, named after the dates of rival protests supporting and opposing the government at the time. Both represent an array of parties, with the former including Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement and Berri's Amal Movement and the latter, including Hariri's Future Movement.

March 8 has managed to make major gains in recent years, boosted significantly by the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah movement. The group's leader, Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, commands a powerful militia formed with the support of Iran and against Israel, which has twice invaded Lebanon and has engaged in cross-border clashes with Hezbollah.

While Berri and Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, head of the Free Patriotic Movement since 2014, have been among the most persistent targets of protesters' resignation calls, Nasrallah has also been asked by many to step down. Others, however, have specifically excluded Nasrallah from calls of resignation, considering his position unique and representing a potential schism in the demands of what so far has mostly been a unified rebellion on the streets.

Those participating in the demonstrations have accused the government of mishandling Lebanon's embattled economy, which includes rising debt and a looming currency crisis, as well as enabling corruption paralyzing efforts to fix the country's failing infrastructure.

Last week, another major March 14 figure appeared to cave into the ongoing protests. Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea called on his party's four ministers to quit their posts as the government struggled to cope.