Hezbollah MP Mohammad Raad on Tuesday called for ending Lebanon’s cooperation with the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), which is probing former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s 2005 assassination.
“[Cooperation] with the tribunal should be severed because the court is targeting the Resistance,” the National News Agency quoted Raad as saying.
The MP also said that the new Lebanese cabinet, which is dominated by the Hezbollah-led March 8 coalition, “has fostered [Lebanon’s defense] formula of army, people and Resistance.”
The new cabinet was formed on June 13 and was granted parliament’s vote of confidence on July 7.
The STL indicted four members of the Syrian- Iranian-backed Hezbollah in connection to Rafik Hariri’s murder, but the Shia group ruled out their arrest and labeled the tribunal as a “foreign conspiracy.”
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