Hezbollah accuses Hariri party of fraud

Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has accused Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s al-Mustaqbal party of “the biggest fraud” in the country’s modern history.

On Sunday, Hezbollah Media Relations Officer Ibrahim Moussawi said that Mustaqbal is “staging a coup against state institutions, from the inside, through fully taking advantage of them to serve its interests and run the country as if it was a forsaken farm,” Naharnet reported.

Moussawi also condemned the latest stances voiced by some of the party’s leaders that have intensified the political atmosphere in the confessionally-divided country.

“The most dangerous thing is the acts of some of this movement’s figures who are charging the atmospheres with sectarian tension through dragging the country into the rhetoric of sectarian strife,” he said.

Moussawi accused the Western-backed party of classifying political stances according to a sectarian basis, and describing any stance that opposes the premier as opposition to its sect.

The Hezbollah spokesmancalled on the Mustaqbal’s leadership “to act wisely and end the civil strife rhetoric.”

Moussawi was referring to accusations hurled against his Islamic resistance movement and Syria by the March 14 coalition — which also includes Mustaqbal — of involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Premier Rafiq Hariri in 2005.

Earlier this month, however, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said that he made a mistake in accusing Syria of the murder of his father, acknowledging the charges were politically motivated.