Hariri: ‘Achieving justice conflicts with Tehran’s goals’

August 16, 2011 ⋅ 6:46 pm ⋅ Post a comment

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Former prime minister and current opposition leader MP Saad Hariri responded on Tuesday to Iran’s latest statement on the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), saying “achieving justice conflicts with Tehran’s goals.”

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ramin Mehmanparast stated earlier on Tuesday that STL, “has no legal rights.” He accused the tribunal of being “politicized.”

STL was established to find and try the killers of former PM Rafik Hariri ( Saad Hariri’s father ) and the related crimes

“The Iranian Foreign Ministry’s position regarding the STL is the same as Hezbollah’s, and is part of their policy to [obstruct] justice from being served,” Hariri said

Hariri added that the international community “gave the tribunal its legal rights” when it issued a UN Security Council resolution to set up the court.

Hariri commented on the fugitive Hezbollah members accused of killing his father by saying: Everyone in the world knows about the relations between Iran and Hezbollah but I hope this relation did not expand to include hiding those wanted for justice”

He also said that Iran’s behavior vis-a-vis political murders “does not reflect any wisdom or responsibility.”

The Iranian and Syrian -backed Hezbollah brought down PM Saad Hariri’s government on January 12 over the Special Tribunal for Lebanon’s (STL) imminent indictment.

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon issued the indictments and arrest warrants in the assassination of Lebanon’s former PM Hariri on June 30. Two of the suspects Mustafa Badreddine and Salim Ayyash are reportedly senior members of Hezbollah and played leading roles in the assassination while the other two Hezbollah members Hassan Aneissy, also known as Hassan Issa, and Assad Sabra played a supporting role in the execution of the assassination.

Lebanon had 30 days to find and arrest the suspects but Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said on July 2 that the party would not cooperate with the tribunal.

“No Lebanese government will be able to carry out any arrests whether in 30 days, 30 years or even 300 years.”

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35 comments for “Hariri: ‘Achieving justice conflicts with Tehran’s goals’”

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Anonymous

lebanon should sue iran in the international court for creating a state of terrossist ha in the south within a state of lebanon , which has caused lebanon severe damages to its economy and destruction from wars resulting from terrorrist act , lebanon has suffered losses and damages about 1 trillion dollars that is should be the ammount of the lawsuites against iran and syria

Anonymous

the only terroriste is your country the zioniaste state of heretique

Anonymous

Dorkus. Terrorist-types may come from all over the world … but they seem to accumulate in a very few spots and ‘teach’ their trade to the illiterate. Those are the spots ‘led’ by people with the same basic minds.
Anonymous

to low to answer
Anonymous

i told you wait after the fast to put comment there will be understandable
have you read that?:2160John replied to you
Hariri was killed by his so called “friends”. The bomb was a new German bomb from the reports I read and it was given to Israel. The orders to kill Hariri were given from Washington DC by Dick Cheney and his office that runs the assassination team that also killed Benazir Bhutto(later blamed on an Al-Qaeda affiliated group). What these guys on this site don’t understand is that after certain leaders go against the people they work with then they get assassinated. Hariri gave 1559 lip service and needed to be killed in order to create the revolution that will drive out Syria. Benazir turned against the CIA which helped put her into power and at the same time she crossed the red line and told the world that Bin Laden was already dead years ago.

Anonymous

The last thing they are concerned with is justice!!!
Anonymous

The last thing they are concerned with is justice!!!
Anonymous

i want someone to explain to me please what has iran who is at least 1000 and 1000 square km away from beirut has got anything to do with the STL?

or has it counted lebanon as its land already?
oh yes that AhmadiNajad visit!…

well not on our own bodies…..

if iranian regime has got nothing to do with the assassination really it would not have mattered to it who is assassinated and who has done it.

the f***killers, hiding under the banner of islam, you are nothing like what islam says…in fact you are nothing like any religion says except the religion of shayateen where murder, corrumption and trangression are a must..

youzz are disgusting and i hope you burn to hell with your hypocricies and lies.

tfeh you are not honourable enough to be considered animals even.

Allah will deal with you and it will be a sweet take of justice!

Anonymous

and please tell why a man who live in Paris judge the politique of beyrouth ?

Anonymous

Seems you attempt to do it leo … ask yourself the same question. Perhaps because you see how bad it is?

I will let the STL worry about 2.1 bombs … or the tunnel under the street where they planted it.
Anonymous

Seems you attempt to do it leo … ask yourself the same question. Perhaps because you see how bad it is?

I will let the STL worry about 2.1 bombs … or the tunnel under the street where they planted it.
Anonymous

why a tunnel a 2.1 bomb of 20 kg is powerfull as a 2 tonnes bomb
Anonymous

come on how can i judge i give an opinion
but this coward (i have remark that the precedently so brave sunnis are now quite shy they even call ahl shitty for help) pretend to make lebanese politic from paris
Anonymous

tell me what happen with yalibnan
can they decide to stop send you the comment
until now it was like they was filtring it (flushing out the zioniaste) now i just got nothing for an hour and i see the beginning of your comment in thefront page
how can i complain to them?
Anonymous

There is this fruit fly that HAS to follow you around!!
Anonymous

you truely ARE an idiot…wow. it
s kodak moment for me..it’s the first time i talk with someone as stupid as you are!

these pple are international prosecutors and judges…of course they have everything to do with the assassination.
Anonymous

i copy past you a comment i receive from a truly lebanese guy:Hariri was killed by his so called “friends”. The bomb was a new German bomb from the reports I read and it was given to Israel. The orders to kill Hariri were given from Washington DC by Dick Cheney and his office that runs the assassination team that also killed Benazir Bhutto(later blamed on an Al-Qaeda affiliated group). What these guys on this site don’t understand is that after certain leaders go against the people they work with then they get assassinated. Hariri gave 1559 lip service and needed to be killed in order to create the revolution that will drive out Syria. Benazir turned against the CIA which helped put her into power and at the same time she crossed the red line and told the world that Bin Laden was already dead years ago.

Anonymous

cant wait for the dirty syrian regime to fall so that irans hand is cut off and can no longer operate freely in libon……I say after assad gets hung and his f^*kers get executed, the lebanese should take the gloves off and arrest and execute all ssnp members in libon and outlaw this filthy party

Anonymous

Shankare and mariah worked only on the insult mode
must be estonishing to live with you : insult zozoozozo insult zozooozo insult zoozozo
do you thing mother nature give you a sort of brain for that

Anonymous

khallas f7imna inoo inta ssnp, now za’hit

start looking for a place to hide ya moukhabarat because when assad eats sh!t soon, your party is gonna yintek ma2laboo in libon
Anonymous

yes yes yes tu me fais jouir that so hard you lost your speak innit
Anonymous

Bastardino!
Anonymous

Bastardino!

Anonymous

The STL is none of Iran’s business; however, since we are getting news that they are Accessories to Murder in PM Hariri’s case by giving refuge to the Hezbollah murderers, they are harping on the court being politicized. What a load of rubbish which gets whispered in one of these idiots ears and they all parrot it beginning with Hassan to the show-shiner on the street.
Anonymous

Justice is in the eyes of the enforcer. But where is the real justice when you prosecute someone not guilty of the crime and leave the real suspect uninterrogated and free to roam the neighborhood and kill more people.

Anonymous

that true the bomb was a 2.1 chemical bomb something hezbollah are not able to do
only german have this technology on earth
they know it but they are cynical about it

Anonymous

Hariri was killed by his so called “friends”. The bomb was a new German bomb from the reports I read and it was given to Israel. The orders to kill Hariri were given from Washington DC by Dick Cheney and his office that runs the assassination team that also killed Benazir Bhutto(later blamed on an Al-Qaeda affiliated group). What these guys on this site don’t understand is that after certain leaders go against the people they work with then they get assassinated. Hariri gave 1559 lip service and needed to be killed in order to create the revolution that will drive out Syria. Benazir turned against the CIA which helped put her into power and at the same time she crossed the red line and told the world that Bin Laden was already dead years ago.
Anonymous

The ‘Power-Brokers’ always have intrigues and nasty business up their sleeves. One assumes ‘spies’ on both sides of any border. THE PEOPLE wish to know ALL.
The trial will be even more interesting …
Anonymous

does is son was aware of the complot.It’s in use in the sunni that the son of the calif want to be calif in place of the calif
Anonymous

Okay … sure … the Germans made one bomb and gave it to Israel, who promptly put it on plane flying so high that no-one saw or heard it and proceeded to drop it accurately on Harir’s car. Well … if they have THAT kind of ability, I think it would be a good idea to make peace with them.
Anonymous

it john who say they give it to the zioiniaste stay me i thing that the german will never ever give so sensible tech to any state and the german as i know them will allow it’s use only if the camp of Hariri is ok (why i think the first suspect must be his son )a 2.1 of 20 kg it’s equivalent of a 2 tonnes bomb you can pass the car and send this down or fix it on the car before .You see lot of possibilty when you put in account the bomb was only 20 kg but impossible that HA can have such tach that’s for sure

Anonymous

And that is why the ‘Not Guilty’ Hezzbolla refused to talk, refused to find and present evidence, tried to mess up the country and the STL which was formed at the request of a Lebanese government? Because they didn’t want to involve the ‘real subject’ ??
And now when they see the STL cannot be stopped anyway, because it works in a much more free atmosphere, they have all manner of things to say? And Iran sticks it’s nose in as well? This is your idea of better justice??
And for sure we ALL know ‘Tehran’s goals’ in this sordid affair.
That goal to turn all the world into a Supreme-Being-Ayatolla’s idea of boot-camp for his idol-worshippers is what it’s really about, and he’s pissed that Lebanese and Syrian people are not being driven into the ground enough at the moment. In fact, some wish to be out of that hell he creates. Really upsets him to see the world is recognizing the TOTAL INJUSTICE of his system of control too. His version of ‘justice’ is so convoluted no-one can really explain a how human mind could be so fked up, except perhaps that he believes some of his own brainwashing and will become the Supremely Supreme-Being and rise into the sky so he can just reach down and ‘adjust’ things his way with the flick of a finger.
I’m sure those despots dream this way …
And you defend this ????

Anonymous

Hezbollah pledges allegiance to Iran before any other country including Lebanon

Anonymous

you was there?
liar

Anonymous

I am so glad that the idiot leobetapar posts here. He (sorry I meant it) gives us the opportunity to laugh or in other words “Nidda77ak 3lay”. The situation is serious and we need a clown, who speaks from his anal hole, even though he smells of shite all the time, to lighten the seriousness and danger of the situation.

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