Nasrallah: Mehlis, Bramartz and Bellemare all stand accused
Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said: "We shall never accept from today on what we accepted before following the injustice done to the four generals."
In a televised address on Friday, Nasrallah tackled the subject of the party”s crisis with Egypt, the release of the four generals last Wednesday by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) and Hariri assassination case.
He did not address the issue of the scheduled Israeli military maneuvers by the end of May, an issue that was recently discussed by national dialogue participants.
Nasrallah voiced his opinion concerning the Hizbullah-Egypt crisis saying: "The party did not enter into any media or political confrontation with the Egyptian regime. The Egyptian regime achieved nothing in its anti-Hizbullah campaign and failed in defaming its image."
He denied claims that Hizbullah was working on establishing a working cell in Egypt and indicated the existence of "quiet efforts for settling this crisis."
He commented on U.N. Secretary-General”s recent statements concerning the Hizbullah cell in Egypt saying: "this make me wonder how he did not utilize the same expressions during the Gaza war."
"Ban Ki-moon is dragging the U.N. into a confrontation with the resistance for Israel”s benefit," Nasrallah said.
He rejected the "Zionist program and we reject U.S. hegemony in the region."
Nasrallah also called anew on the Lebanese authorities to widen its investigation into the 2005 assassination of Hariri to probe a possible involvement by Hezbollah”s archfoe Israel.
On the issue of the recent release of the four generals by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, Nasrallah called for a full revision of the Hariri assassination and the special tribunal in a manner that serves this case.
"The political accusation in the Hariri case almost caused a civil and regional war and caused a dispute on the subject of who would investigate the crime," Nasrallah said.
He added that the four generals remained in prison for political reasons, explaining that United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission (UNIIIC) Mehlis and those that succeeded him should”ve released them ealier.
"The decision to release the four generals is clear evidence the UNIIIC was politicized, unjust and not working according to international standards," He said.
He added that the "failure of the politicized testimonies, the disappearance of the main witness is a political and judicial scandal; the release came to cover those two scandals."
Nasrallah pointed to all UNIIIC heads Mehlis, Bramartz and Bellemare are all stand accused.
He described prosecutor Bellemare as an individual composed of three characters saying the first character was bad for working on the case as his predecessors did, while Bellemare 2 was good (for recommending the release of the four generals) adding: "but we don”t know what Bellemare 3 would be like."
The Hizbullah Secretary-General ended by saying that the recent release of the four generals would not affect the outcome of the June parliamentary elections.