Outgoing Lebanese prime minister has slammed what he calls Iran's "flagrant intervention" in internal Lebanese and Arab affairs.
Saad Hariri says Iran is meddling in Lebanon, Bahrain and Kuwait and adds this is "not acceptable anymore."
Hariri, a Sunni Muslim, spoke in Beirut on Thursday, delivering his harshest criticism yet of Shiite powerhouse Iran.
Iran backs Hariri's rival, the Shiite militant Hezbollah group.
Hezbollah and its allies toppled Hariri's Western-backed government in January when their ministers walked out. They then gained enough support in parliament to name their own candidate as prime minister-designate.
Hariri, who acts as a caretaker until a new government is formed, says Lebanon will not be an Iranian protectorate.
Source: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
