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“Any negative handling of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) will transform Lebanon into an illegitimate country and will subject the country to unlimited [international] sanctions,” a source close to March 14 said in remarks published on Tuesday.

“The STL’s indictment is a decision [approved] by the Lebanese and international [authorities] under the rule of the UN,” he told Al-Jumhuriya newspaper.

The source also warned against Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s latest comments that the STL is no longer part of his party’s concerns.

Nasrallah said on Friday that his party is “not concerned about any scenario linked to the STL.”

The new Lebanese cabinet—headed by Prime Minister Najib Mikati—was formed on June 12 after almost five months of deliberations between the March 8 parties.

Before bringing down Saad Hariri’s cabinet in January, Hezbollah had been pressing him to disavow the STL, which is probing the 2005 assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri and likely to implicate members of the Shia group.