{"id":62423,"date":"2021-09-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/62423\/wiam-wahhab-shamelessly-celebrates-sons-lavish-wedding"},"modified":"2021-09-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T00:00:00","slug":"wiam-wahhab-shamelessly-celebrates-sons-lavish-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/62423\/wiam-wahhab-shamelessly-celebrates-sons-lavish-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiam Wahhab Shamelessly Celebrates Son&#8217;s Lavish Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"While the rest of the country wallows in crisis after crisis, Wiam Wahhab and his entourage were busy shamelessly celebrating his son&#8217;s wedding this weekend. Wahhab entertained over 4,000 guests at an extremely extravagant wedding, at a time when many families fall beneath the poverty line as a direct result of the political class&#8217; corruption.  <br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h4uVcWTSnf\">pic.twitter.com\/h4uVcWTSnf<\/a><\/p>\u2014 ZIAD KRAYTEM (@KraytemZiad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KraytemZiad\/status\/1434534040716075021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiamwahhab?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wiamwahhab<\/a> <br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OycsQDCFQ5\">pic.twitter.com\/OycsQDCFQ5<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Katia (@KatiaAF007) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatiaAF007\/status\/1434540532655484932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  In a <a href=\"https:\/\/alloubnania.com\/Newsdet.aspx?id=442860\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">speech<\/a> to the invitees, Wahhab said: \u201cI know I will face harsh criticism, but I don\u2019t really care. In such circumstances, maybe we should not have celebrated, but this is my son and I never imagined that I would attend his wedding.\u201d<br \/>  <br \/>  The irony here is that Wiam Wahhab is the same guy who criticized the ISF&#8217;s Director-General Imad Othman for celebrating his son\u2019s grand wedding and spending over 5 million dollars on the ordeal at the time, calling out Othman&#8217;s corruption.<br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\"><\/p>\u2014 Wiam Wahhab (@wiamwahhab) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiamwahhab\/status\/1171453551366664193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 10, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/62422\"target=_new\">74% of the Lebanese population under the poverty line<\/a>, the political class remains business as usual. 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