No foreign involvement in Lebanon's new cabinet: Hezbollah chief

Tehran, June 25, IRNA -- Lebanon's Hezbollah Leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised broadcast on Friday that the Islamic Republic of Iran and Syria have not played any role in the formation of new Lebanese government.

'Formation of new Lebanese government is purely a national achievement which was free from any foreign involvement,' Nasrallah added.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Nasrallah said that members of his resistance movement had confessed to being CIA agents and accused arch-foe Israel of turning to the US spy agency when it failed to infiltrate his Iran-backed party.

Nasrallah refused to disclose the identities of the two party members but said a third case was under investigation, slamming the US embassy in Lebanon as a 'den of spies.'

'When the Israeli enemy failed to infiltrate Hizbollah, it turned to the most powerful intelligence agency,' Nasrallah said in a live television speech broadcast in Lebanon, referring to the Central Intelligence Agency.

'Our investigation has found that intelligence officers (in the CIA) have recruited two of our members separately, whom we shall not name out of respect for the privacy of their families,' he added.

'The first confessed he was recruited five months ago, while the second confessed he had been recruited even before that,' he said, adding that the recruiters were CIA agents posing as diplomats at the US embassy east of Beirut.

Nasrallah also said the group was investigating whether the third member of the party had been recruited by the CIA, Israel's Mossad or the intelligence service of a European country.

Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance party movement was founded in 1980s./end