Iranian FM says Tehran doesn’t give STL any consideration

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi reiterated on Monday that Tehran doesn’t give the Special Tribunal for Lebanon tasked with finding out the killers of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri any consideration.

Speaking to Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, Salehi said that accusations against Syria and then Hezbollah of involvement in the February 2005 assassination were all lies.

Salehi reiterated that Tehran backed an inter-Lebanese agreement to solve the country's political crisis and stressed that Premier-designate Najib Miqati's cabinet would not be one-sided.

"We support any agreement that the Lebanese achieve" among themselves, the Iranian FM emphasized. "Lebanon cannot be one-sided," he said in response to a question on the March 14 alliance's rejection to participate in the new government. "There is the resistance, Miqati, MP Walid Jumblatt and MP Michel Aoun. Do you consider those from a single side?" he wondered.