Lebanon's outgoing Prime Minister Saad Al Hariri will on Saturday pay Cairo an official visit. Hariri's media bureau released a statement Thursday saying that he will be meeting with Egypt's Prime Minister Essam Sharaf and several officials to discuss regional and global developments as well as Egyptian-Lebanese bilateral relations. On another note, Hariri slammed what he calls Iran's "flagrant intervention" in internal Lebanese and Arab affairs. He said Iran is meddling in Lebanon, Bahrain and Kuwait and added this is "not acceptable anymore." Hariri spoke in Beirut on Thursday, delivering his harshest criticism yet of Iran, which backs his rival, the Shiite militant Hezbollah group. Hezbollah and its allies brought down Hariri's Western-backed government in January when their ministers walked out of Parliament. They then gained a majority support in parliament to name an opposition candidate as prime minister-designate. Hariri, who acts as a caretaker until a new government is formed, says Lebanon will not be an Iranian protectorate.
