Lebanese 🇱🇧 PM's allies believe Saudi Arabia is restricting his movement

Lebanon's government believes Saudi Arabia is restricting the movement and communications of its Prime Minister Saad Hariri, a high-level ministerial source told CNN on Friday.

The source said Hariri "isn't expressing himself freely" with the Lebanese government and that his own political bloc -- which is usually aligned with Saudi interests -- had "no idea what's going on."

Speculation has swirled this week that Saudi Arabia is holding Hariri against his will after he said he was resigning in a televised address from the Saudi capital Riyadh, last Saturday.

Hariri's sudden departure has plunged Lebanon into a political crisis and stoked fears of a conflict, either with Saudi Arabia, which is increasingly agitated by Iran's ascendancy in the region, or Israel, which shares Saudi's fears about Iran even if it does not support Riyadh in public.

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