Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
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are involved in the 2005 liquidation of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, reported The New Yorker magazine.
It said that Hizbullah likely "pulled the trigger" in the liquidation, but could not have done so without Syria and Iran's blessing and logistic support.
The perpetrators behind the liquidation had in their possession a telephone that they used to make at least 12 calls to Iran before and after the crime, added the magazine.
The STL Sherlocks sought to determine who the perpetrators were contacting in Iran and they requested the aid of western intelligence agencies.
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the magazine quoted a senior CIA official as saying that Iranian agents were heard talking minutes before the liquidation.
The Iranians were orchestrating the liquidation over the phone, added the former CIA official.
Head of the elite Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani had to be involved in Hariri's liquidation if the Islamic republic was truly linked to the crime, noted the official.
Four Hizbullah members have been named suspects by the STL in the Beirut truck bombing that killed Hariri on February 14 , 2005.
The party denies the charges and has refused to hand over the suspects.