AFP, Tehran, July 2, 2011 – The UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon is ‘political’ and ‘disreputable’ and its indictment against Hezbollah members is of no importance, Iran’s parliament speaker Ali Larijani said Saturday.
The Netherlands-based STL investigating the assassination of Rafiq Hariri on Thursday charged four members of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah over the 2005 assassination of the former Lebanese premier.
’The court is so disreputable for anyone to pay attention to its results,’ said Larijani, who is on an official visit in Azerbaijan, the Iranian parliament’s website reported.
Larijani said the court’s ruling had been influenced up by the United States after failing ‘to prevent the formation of the (Prime Minister Najib) Mikati government,’ in Lebanon.