FILE PHOTO: Hezbollah member of the parliament Hassan Fadlallah talks in Beirut, Lebanon November 9, 2017. REUTERS/Aziz Taher/File Photo
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah believes that terms required by any IMF bailout package for Lebanon would spark "a popular revolution", a senior official said on Tuesday, rejecting such a step and calling instead for a "national solution" to a deep economic crisis.
Lebanon is in the throes of an unprecedented economic crisis, the result of long-entrenched corruption and bad governance that have landed the state with one of the world's heaviest public debt burdens.
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