The dispute was triggered by comments made by Kordahi in an interview taped in August before he became information minister and broadcast in late October.
Bahrain urges its citizens to leave Lebanon
Lebanese Information Minister George Kordahi triggered the dispute with an interview recorded in August and aired last week. In it, he said that Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels were "defending themselves... against an external aggression". Lebanon on Monday called for talks with Saudi Arabia to ease the dispute.
