Lebanon has been experiencing unrest following new discoveries surfacing in the investigation surrounding the explosion at the Beirut port on August 4 that led to hundreds of casualties and thousands of injuries.
Maj.-Gen. Ashraf Rifi, a former justice minister and retired commander of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces, said on Thursday that he has testified to the team leading the investigation that Iran is behind the shipment of ammonium nitrate sent to Hezbollah that caused the terrible explosion.
He urged the judge to allow him to publish his testimony, saying, "I call on the judge to make my testimony public. And my message to Hezbollah is to not think that it has succeeded in sabotaging the investigation of the crime of the century, and limiting it to a few several clerks who knew about the presence of the ammonium nitrate but remained silent," Rifi said.
"I've mentioned it in my testimony to the investigating judge, and I will say it again: The shipment of ammonium nitrate was sent to Lebanon by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for Hezbollah," Rifi noted in a statement, which came as a response to a lawsuit filed against him by Hezbollah's attorneys, who are suing him for "incitement, sparking controversy and endangering civil peace," following similar accusations he has made in the past. READ MORE
