Bashar al-Assad flips out at Ahmadinejad
* Report says Iranian president voiced support for setting up a tribunal
to investigate Hariri's assassination
Daily Times Monitor
March 8, 2007
LAHORE: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad went ballistic on Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a phone conversation, the Kuwaiti
newspaper Al-Siyassah reported on Wednesday.
Sources close to the Syrian leader told the newspaper that Assad had
called the Iranian president to discuss Ahmadinejad's meeting with Saudi
Arabia's King Abdullah in Riyadh.
However, the conversation reportedly turned ugly when Ahmadinejad voiced
support for the establishment of an international tribunal to investigate
the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri - a
sensitive subject for Syria, which has been suspected of involvement in
the Lebanese leader's death.
The report said that Assad burst into an angry tirade and even cursed the
Iranians at the end of the conversation.
Iran and Syria have long enjoyed friendly relations. They have been
particularly united in their criticism of Israel and the United States.
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