Iranian president slams reports over Hezbollah's involvement in Hariri's murder
BEIRUT. October 14. KAZINFORM Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday slammed the "fabricated" claims that Hezbollah was involved in the assassination of Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
Deceitful hands have killed a dear friend (Rafic Hariri) who cared about his country, Ahmadinejad said when addressing tens of thousands of Lebanese at the Al-Raya Stadium in Beirut's southern suburb of Dahiyeh.
"We are now witnessing how news reports are fabricated and international justice organizations are exploited to implicate other friends (Hezbollah) so as to sow strife," said the Iranian president, referring to recent reports that the UN-backed court probing the 2005 assassination of Hariri intended to indict "rogue " members of Hezbollah.
Ahmadinejad's controversial visit came at a delicate time when tensions between Hezbollah and the pro-Western bloc headed by Sunni Prime Minister Saad Hariri have been running high over the indictment to be announced by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon; Kazinform cites Xinhua.
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