[[{"content_id":"21238","domain_id":"0","lang_id":"en","portal_id":"2","owner_id":"29","user_id":"1","view_accesslevel_id":"0","edit_accesslevel_id":"0","delete_accesslevel_id":"0","editor_id":"0","content_title":"Beirut bombing aimed at ouster of Miqati gov\u2019t","content_number":"0","content_date_event":"2012-10-22 10:03:00","content_summary":"","content_summary_fill":"0","content_body":"An Iranian expert in regional affairs said an assassination bid on the Lebanese intelligence chief Wassam al-Hasan was meant to push an ouster of the Lebanese government and restore the Saad Hariri-led March 14 current into power.\r\nSayyed Hadi Sayyed Afqahi told Qudsna that the way the intelligence chief went from Germany to Beirut and his subsequent killing was essentially mysterious.\r\nIt is a bit mysterious that Ashraf Rifi, his direct manager had no knowledge about his arrival in Lebanon. It shows that the intelligence chief was followed from Germany, the expert suggested.\r\nHe said the killing was too complex for Syria to carry out as the country is so involved in its fighting with terrorists that it has found itself in a lack of might even in keeping security of sensitive areas.\r\nThe expert also denounced suggestions of Hezbollah involvement in the killing as irrelevant, arguing that Hezbollah is in dire need of calm so that it can manage its confrontation against Israel.\r\nHe offered a third suggestion that a fifth column has carried out the killing in a bid to pave the ground for its future scenarios by which to fan tension across Lebanon.\r\nThe expert also offered the possibility that the assassination was an Israeli reprisal against al-Hasan who was involved in the busting of over 30 spy networks related to the Zionist regime in Lebanon.\r\nSayyed Afqahi said a major goal sought through the assassination bid was to topple Najib Miqati administration and restore a so-called national unity government led by Saad Hariri.","content_html":"


An Iranian expert in regional affairs said an assassination bid on the Lebanese intelligence chief Wassam al-Hasan was meant to push an ouster of the Lebanese government and restore the Saad Hariri-led March 14 current into power.<\/font><\/p>\r\n

Sayyed Hadi Sayyed Afqahi told Qudsna that the way the intelligence chief went from Germany to Beirut and his subsequent killing was essentially mysterious.<\/font><\/p>\r\n

It is a bit mysterious that Ashraf Rifi, his direct manager had no knowledge about his arrival in Lebanon. It shows that the intelligence chief was followed from Germany, the expert suggested.<\/font><\/p>\r\n

He said the killing was too complex for Syria to carry out as the country is so involved in its fighting with terrorists that it has found itself in a lack of might even in keeping security of sensitive areas.<\/font><\/p>\r\n

The expert also denounced suggestions of Hezbollah involvement in the killing as irrelevant, arguing that Hezbollah is in dire need of calm so that it can manage its confrontation against Israel.<\/font><\/p>\r\n

He offered a third suggestion that a fifth column has carried out the killing in a bid to pave the ground for its future scenarios by which to fan tension across Lebanon.<\/font><\/p>\r\n

The expert also offered the possibility that the assassination was an Israeli reprisal against al-Hasan who was involved in the busting of over 30 spy networks related to the Zionist regime in Lebanon.<\/font><\/p>\r\n

Sayyed Afqahi said a major goal sought through the assassination bid was to topple Najib Miqati administration and restore a so-called national unity government led by Saad Hariri.<\/font><\/p>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2012-10-22 10:03:00","content_date_finish":"2012-10-22 10:03:00","content_date_register":"2012-10-22 10:03:00","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"21232","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":null,"attach_date_register":null,"attach_id":null,"attach_file_ext":null,"attach_file_header":null,"attach_img_type":null,"attach_img_width":null,"attach_img_height":null,"attach_file_media":null,"attach_show_watermark":null,"score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"245","visit_date_last":"2025-05-09 13:29:08","attach_title":null,"node_title":"Interviews","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":135, \"left\":27, \"right\":28}]"}]]