Foreign Ministry on UN tribunal ruling: Hezbollah was involved in murder of Hariri

The Foreign Ministry reacts to a UN-backed tribunal’s conviction today of a Hezbollah member for involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon acquitted three members of the Iran-backed terror group and said there was no evidence Hezbollah leaders or Syria were involved in the 2005 suicide truck bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.

“The Hezbollah terror organization and its people were involved in murder and obstruction of justice,” a ministry statement says. “Hezbollah took the future of the Lebanese people captive in the service of foreign interests. Countries of the world need to act against this terror organization to help Lebanon be freed from this threat.”

The statement adds: “The arming of the organization, its efforts to set up an arsenal of precision missiles and its operations endanger the entire region.”