Along the road leading to Beirut's airport, billboards now display the slogan 'Lebanon First!' in place of the previous 'Thank You Iran' banners that featured portraits of Iran's supreme leaders, according to Abu Ali Express. The shift was reported Saturday afternoon, hours after Hezbollah supporters blocked the same road in renewed protests over the Lebanon-Israel agreement.
New billboards along the road to Beirut's airport now read 'Lebanon First!' — 'Kodem Kol Lebanon!' — in a notable shift from the earlier banners that thanked Iran and displayed portraits of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his predecessor, according to Abu Ali Express on Saturday afternoon.
The report comes on the same day that Hezbollah supporters blocked the airport road and the government district in Beirut overnight, protesting the Israel-Lebanon agreement, as The Zioneer reported earlier Saturday. The removal of the pro-Iranian banners was first ordered by the Lebanese interior minister two days earlier, per an earlier bulletin. The earlier banners had been in place since at least June 21, when they were first reported, and were seen as a prominent display of pro-Iranian sentiment amid ongoing political tensions.
The 'Lebanon First' slogan suggests a shift toward a more nationalist, less explicitly pro-Iranian messaging on the key artery, though whether the change reflects official policy, a local initiative, or a response to public sentiment remains unconfirmed from the single source.
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