STL, US tool to weaken Lebanon: Iran http://www.presstv.ir/detail/187173.html

Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani says the US uses Washington-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) as a tool to destabilize the new Lebanese government. "The US is furious about the formation of a new government in Lebanon so it is struggling to sabotage plans of the government and destabilize the country," Larijani said in a press briefing in the Azeri capital of Baku on Saturday, IRNA reported. The senior Iranian official pointed out that the US has sent its special envoy to Lebanon to provoke the Lebanese about the STL and thus turn the situation to its own interests.

Larijani went on to say that the STL probing the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Premier Rafiq Hariri was another instance that the US used international bodies as a tool to shield its interests. Hariri was killed along with more than 20 others in a massive car bombing in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on February 14, 2005.

Larijani further explained that the US-backed STL ruling was politically-motivated and aimed to pile pressure on the new Lebanese government. The controversial STL, which has been investigating Hariri's death for the past four years with the help and support of Washington, submitted a sealed indictment and arrest warrants to the Lebanese Justice Ministry on June 30. The pro-Western Future Television owned by the Future Movement of the victim's son Sa'ad Hariri said that the indictment had named four members of the Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah.

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