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Iran's Larijani Calls for Support of Lebanon, Blasts West

   VOA News  19 January 2011
   Iranian  Parliament  Speaker, Ali Larijani, during a press conference,
   in Tehran, 29 May 2010

Photo: AP

   Iranian  Parliament  Speaker, Ali Larijani, during a press conference,
   in Tehran (File Photo).

   Iranian parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani has urged Muslim leaders to
   support what he called Lebanese "resistance" of Western plots.
   In a Wednesday speech, he reiterated other Iranian leaders' challenges
   to  the  legitimacy  of  the  United  Nations-backed  special tribunal
   investigating  the 2005 assassination of Lebanese prime minister Rafiq
   Hariri.
   Larijani  commented  at  a  meeting of the Islamic Inter-Parliamentary
   Union  in  Abu Dhabi, where attendees had been expected to discuss the