Middle East Desk
Report
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah said on Friday charges brought against the prime minister and three former ministers over the Beirut port explosion smacked of “political targeting”.
The statement from the heavily armed, Iran-backed group is part of a wider pushback by some influential parties against the charges brought by Judge Fadi Sawan on Thursday, showing the political minefield facing the investigation. Sawan charged caretaker PM Hassan Diab, whose cabinet quit after the blast, and three former ministers with negligence over the August explosion that killed 200 people.
