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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ahmad El-Khatib

Hezbollah chief calls on Lebanon's central bank governor to resign amid mounting legal troubles

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The chief of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group on Friday called on the country’s central bank governor to resign amid mounting legal troubles.

The governor, Riad Salameh, should either step down or be stripped of his responsibilities, Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Iran-backed Hezbollah, said in a televised speech commemorating the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000.

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