Lebanon's Hariri blasts Syria and Iran, calls for mass rally

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2008

BEIRUT (AFP) — Majority leader Saad Hariri blasted Syria and Iran on Thursday for interfering in Lebanese politics and urged a massive turnout for a rally on the third anniversary of his father's assassination.

"On February 14, we will all go down to Martyr's Square to say in one voice that the Lebanese are united, that they reject terrorism and that all attempts to intimidate us won't succeed," Hariri said in a fiery speech to a packed audience of party members and supporters.

"On February 14 we will converge on Martyr's Square from all corners of the country to speak out loud in one voice that we want a president... to say that the road to the presidency cuts through Beirut and the parliament building, not through Damascus, Tehran or any other capital," he added....