Iraqi political and security sources have told the Lebanese daily Al-Mustaqbal that the crisis in Lebanon was planned in advance during a secret meeting in early May between representatives of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Hizbullah, and the Shi'ite militias in Iraq.
According to the sources, the aim of creating the crisis is to establish a "Persian empire" in the Middle East, and also to cover up revelations of Hizbullah's role in training Shi'ite militias in Iraq.
Iraqi MP Muhammad Al-Dahini told the paper that the Lebanon crisis is a settling of accounts by Tehran.
Source: Al-Mustaqbal, Lebanon, May 14, 2008
