Lebanon’s Hariri Blames Hezbollah, Assad for Government’s Fall
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Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri for the first time publicly blamed the collapse of his government in January on the leader of the Shiite Hezbollah movement, Hassan Nasrallah, and its backer, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Hariri, speaking in an interview in Paris with Lebanon’s MTV channel, said yesterday that the new government headed by billionaire Prime Minister Najib Mikati is a Hezbollah government. Mikati formed a new government June 13, dominated by a majority from Hezbollah and its allies.