The Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, said that the party has no account of the Beirut port bombing, and that revealing the circumstances of the explosion is the responsibility of the state and the investigation authorities, accusing political forces of trying to overthrow the state and drag the country into a civil war.
Nasrallah said in a speech marking the 14th anniversary of the July war against Israel that we are awaiting the results of the investigation into the explosion, which must continue and give an answer to the Lebanese people, indicating that national security, with its internal dimension, is the responsibility of the state, and the resistance cannot bear the entire responsibility for national security. .
Concerning the international investigation, Nasrallah said that the first job for any international investigation into the port explosion would be acquitting Israel, and "we reject the international investigation."
He added, "If Israel was behind the Beirut bombing, the FBI investigators would dismiss any charges against it." He also promised Israel to pay a price for the size of this crime if it was the one who committed the crime of the port explosion.
Lebanese investigators are seeking, with the help of other internationals, to determine the causes and circumstances of the explosion that struck Beirut port on August 4, leaving more than 170 people dead and 6,500 wounded, and causing material losses of about $ 15 billion, according to the latest estimates.
The Lebanese Attorney General, Judge Ghassan Oweidat, issued a decision to refer the file to the First Military Investigating Judge, Fadi Sawan.
Politician employment
Nasrallah also spoke about the political and popular movement that followed the explosion. He said that from the first hours of the Beirut port explosion, the political employment of the issue began, and there were those who sought to overthrow the state, not the government, referring to certain political forces - he did not name them - and media and electronic armies that tried to pressure On the President of the Republic to resign, and worked to put Lebanon on the brink of civil war in the service of personal and foreign projects.
Nasrallah called for a national unity government or a government that enjoys the widest political and popular representation and is protected from political forces and parliamentary blocs.
Lebanese politicians are holding consultations on forming a new government, which is a complex process in a country rife with political divisions and governed by a system of power-sharing on a sectarian basis, and the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Berri, called for the acceleration of the formation of a new government.