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...second anniversary of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination, his son and political heir bluntly warns that a failure to establish an international tribunal to try his father's killers will grant the Syrian regime a "license to kill" in Lebanon and dash any hopes of democracy spreading in the Middle East. "There is a country and a regime that has been pounding at Lebanon with assassinations and explosions after explosions and killings after killings, which have been going on for over 30 years," Saad Hariri told TIME in an exclusive interview in his heavily guarded home in Beirut...
...massive Valentine's Day truck bomb explosion, which tore through Beirut's plush seafront hotel district. Hariri had been on the verge of leading an electoral campaign aimed at ending the dominance of Lebanese politics by neighboring Syria, a goal that many Lebanese believe cost him his life. "The Syrian regime killed my father," said Saad Hariri. "Bashar al-Assad gave the order to his goons and they executed the order." He added, "My father's murder was meant to cripple Lebanon and put fear into the Lebanese people...
...aggressive action against Tehran. The briefing occurred in the context of increased American pressure on the Iranian government. And the Bush Administration has claimed that the strife in Iraq since the summer of 2003 can be laid largely at the feet of foreign actors - from Arab jihadists to the Syrian regime to the Iranians. But the briefers said their concern was the safety of U.S. troops. They acknowledged that the sectarian conflict in Iraq would continue even without Iranian involvement. But they said they hoped the publicity they were bringing to the origin of the weaponry would prompt the Iraqi...
...confidant of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made a sentimental speech about the significance of the Iranian Revolution in 1979. In particular, the turbaned diplomat remembered that Syria was the only country to support the fledgling Islamic Republic, and he said that relations were growing even stronger. Syrian President Bashar Al Assad is due to visit Tehran in the near future, he announced...
...Although that shift had generated a sense of unease among Lebanese Sunnis, the recent explosion of sectarian hostilities was triggered by a growing political confrontation during the past two years. Generally, Hizballah and its mainly pro-Syrian allies seek to wrest Lebanon away from the orbit of the United States and keep it at the forefront of the struggle against Israel. The anti-Syrian parliamentary majority, which forms the backbone of the government and includes the Sunnis, has seized upon the support of the West and its Arab allies such as Saudi Arabia to break Syria's grip on Lebanon...