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Zionist Regime accused Hezbollah of Hariri's assassination through its mercenaries

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Beirut, August 10, IRNA -- Secretary General of Lebanese Hezbollah said here Monday night Zionist regime, through one of its mercenaries here accused Hezbollah of assassinating Rafiq Hariri in 1995.

According to IRNA correspondent in Beirut, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah made the comment at his press conference in the presence of the Lebanese and foreign media reporters, adding, “After the 1993 Oslo Treaty, Hezbollah organized a demonstration at Zahiyyeh District in the south of Beirut. At that time Rafiq Hariri was the prime minister of Lebanon. In the course of that demonstration the Lebanese military forces opened fore at the demonstrators which led to killing and wounding a number of people.”

He added, “Israeli mercenary Ahmad Nasrallah got close to one of the security officials of Lebanon and managed to convince him that Hezbollah was planning to assassinate Rafiq Hariri. He also managed to convince them that top commander Imad Muqniyyah and two other Hezbollah military officials were after assassinating Hariri.”

Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah added, “Following those developments the Syrian intelligence forces at Anjar in the east of Lebanon did not manage to spot Muqniyyah, but it was the Hezbollah official Ali Deeb who was arrested instead in Saida and transferred to Damascus! At that time I wrote a letter to the former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad on the matter.”

He said, “It was made clear after the interrogations, of course that he was innocent and the accused crime had been brought up against him quite baselessly.”

Ahmad Nasrallah asked for a political asylum status from Tel Aviv and was granted it a while later.

Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah further emphasizing the Zionist regime’s role in the assassination of Rafiq Hariri, said, “At the same time the Zionist regime had prepared the plots for the assassination of Michel Suleiman and Sa’d Hariri.”

According to IRNA from Beirut, the Hezbollah Secretary General in his press conference that took more then two hours in the presence of a large number of Lebanese and foreign reporters and the representatives of Arabic and world audiovisual media added, “Ever since the assassination of Hariri in the year 2005 Israel very hurriedly began accusing the Hezbollah of the crime and last year, too, they repeated the accusation in an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel and a number of other western dailies and magazines.”

He added, “The Israeli regime is capable of launching such terrorist attacks and there is no need for reasoning to prove this fact, since the history of the Zionist regime is full of such operations. Israel’s antagonist stand towards resistance has led to Tel Aviv’s resorting to any possible opportunity to try to annihilate the resistance movement and particularly to disarm the Hezbollah.”

Seyyed Nasrallah added, “The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told me before the issuance of the Security Council Resolution 1559 that one of the US officials has told him that there is no problem with keeping the remainder of the Syrian forces in Lebanon, and even on the shared borders with Israel, on condition that the resistance would be disarmed!”

But his reply was that the resistance was a part of the strategic security factors of Syria.

Pointing out that in order to implement Resolution 1559 a (political) earthquake had to occur, the situation became ripe with the assassination of Hariri.”

Nasrallah added, “Israel’s method in pursuing its state terrorism policy is identifying the target’s routes resorting to espionage flights, completing such information with the data provided by its mercenaries, eavesdropping of the victim’s communications, setting up cameras in the route, and entering explosives into Lebanon.”

He added, “For instance, in case of the Israeli mercenary Flilibus Henna, he monitored the movements of the Lebanese President Michel Suleiman and the Commander of the Lebanese Army Johan Ghahveji, aimed at plotting their assassination plans.”

He added, “Under such conditions that some Lebanese nationals do not consider the activities of the Israeli regime as espionage movements and consider them unrelated to the assassinations and terrorist acts, Israel was monitoring the entire movements of the March 14th Group members, such as Saad Ed-din Hariri and Samir Jaja, waiting for an appropriate opportunity to assassinate them and then to raise an accusation finger against Syria and Hezbollah.”

The International Criminal Court surveying the assassination of Hariri is scheduled to declare its initial verdict early this fall. It is expected to accuse some Hezbollah members under the influence of the international Zionist lobby, to flicker the flames of a new internal crisis in Lebanon.