The activities of the Investigation Group of the International Tribunal for the terror of Rafiq Hariri, former Lebanese Prime Minister, has more than ever frightened the Iranian regime and its elements who are trying to prevent the continuation of investigations through hindrance and blackmail.
A group of the Hariri international tribunal’s investigators, by inspecting different areas, intend to gain information on some of the leaders and military and security officials of the Hezbollah, wrote Iranian state Media while expressing concern over the result of investigations of the International Investigation Group into the murder of Rafiq Hariri.
The tribunal’s investigators are looking for those who do not appear in public and are not even well recognized in Hezbollah.
According to this report, Hassan Nasrallah, through expressing concern over the development of investigations, called for uncooperative behavior towards the Investigation Group. Due to concerns over the results of studying the case of the terror of Rafiq Hariri by the UN, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and an ally, Michel Aoun, have boycotted talks for national reconciliation.
It should be reminded that Hezbollah boycotted the Lebanese reconciliation negotiations due to the Lebanese government refraining from carrying out a second review of the witnesses’ testimonies that referred to Hezbollah’s role in the murder of Rafiq Hariri.
Al-Quds al-Arabi daily wrote in its editorial: “The Rafiq Hariri international tribunal is the only judicial body to prosecute Hezbollah that is in fact the beginning of the annihilation of Hezbollah, then Syria and finally the Iranian regime.”
In the meantime, an official of the March 14 alliance led by Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said, “There is a Arabic sentiment that the current conditions do not allow the Iranian regime to maintain Lebanon in its own political framework.”