BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 13 (UPI) -- The opposition March 14 movement can bring down the government and its Hezbollah allies, the former Lebanese prime minister said.
Hezbollah helped bring down the government of Saad Hariri while he was on a state visit to Washington in January. Hezbollah was frustrated with Hariri's support for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, a U.N.-backed panel investigating the 2005 assassination of his father, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Four members of Hezbollah were implicated by the tribunal in the 2005 slaying.
The March 8 alliance, which includes members of Hezbollah, helped usher in a new government under Najib Mikati.
Saad Hariri in his first statement in months said Lebanon would fall if Hezbollah doesn't cooperate with the tribunal.
"If Hezbollah did not cooperate with the tribunal, then Lebanon would pay the price," he was quoted by The Daily Star newspaper in Lebanon as saying.
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah rejected the tribunal as an Israeli ploy meant to discredit his Shiite movement.
Hariri said his allies in the March 14 alliance would eventually bring down the Mikati government.
"There will be a strong opposition. I don't think the government will last until the (2013) elections," he was quoted as saying. "With complete frankness, we can bring down the government."
