Soaid: Lebanese Supporters of Syrian Regime Would Collapse with it

March 14 general-secretariat coordinator Fares Soaid said on Monday that Syria’s supporters in Lebanon would fall if the Assad regime collapses.

In remarks to Voice of Lebanon radio station (93.3), Soaid said: “If the Syrian regime collapses in the coming months, the Lebanese figures that revolve in its orbit will fall with it.”

On the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the March 14 official said the Lebanese government has a “moral duty to support the logic of justice in Lebanon.”

“This issue is not only linked to funding or a technical issue called the international tribunal,” he said in a hint that Lebanon should seek the truth and call for justice in the series of assassinations that rocked Lebanon after ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s Feb. 2005 murder.

“We are asking for a commitment to the morality of justice because a state can’t be built where there is no strong law,” Soaid told VDL.

He slammed the government for putting all its resources at the disposal of the Syrian regime at the Arab League, the U.N. Security Council and even at the security and political level.

But Soaid stressed the majority of the Lebanese believe that the Arab Spring and the Syrian revolution provide hope to end the rule of the regime that had controlled Lebanon for nearly 30 years.