Are We Closer To Finding The Truth About The Beirut Port Blast?

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00:00Looking backwards, a tumultuous decade for Lebanon, perhaps we can look back now five years

00:08because the five-year anniversary of the Beirut port blast was only last month.

00:12And that prompted your resignation from the government.

00:16And I want to ask you, who do you blame for the Beirut port blast?

00:22And are we any closer to finding the truth?

00:24I was one of the most targeted people in the series of assassinations

00:37that has tragically killed the former Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri

00:45along with other colleagues and other security personnel.

00:49So the blame is to be pinned on the shoulders of Hezbollah.

00:54Even the resolution that was passed by the international court was clear.

01:04Salim Ayyash, and with the orders he received, has managed to carry out this assassination.

01:11All the investigations that were conducted afterward have assigned the blame on Syria.

01:18Syria, and Syria, and we are not talking about the Syria under the rule of the Assad.

01:23They have been an accessory to this crime.

01:26But the perpetrator who carried out those crimes and also led to the invasion of Beirut in 2008

01:35and also by starting a war with Israel in 2006 which eventually led to the toppling of governments continuously.

01:51So they have taken control of the government institutions in full.

01:55That situation has remained in place until the fatal mistake that has been committed by Hezbollah.

02:05We told them that they have not to be involved in this process.

02:09And I'm talking about the Gaza war here.

02:13It is a game of nations, and Lebanon cannot afford really to be a part of that.

02:19Yet with orders from the Islamic Republic of Iran, they have waded into the situation.

02:29And unfortunately, we have been defeated by the destruction of the very precious parts of Lebanon

02:38and putting the southern part of Lebanon in shambles, the matter which deepened the economic crisis.