BEIRUT, Lebanon - In a live interniew with NBN TV Wednesady, the leader of the Progressive Socialist Party Druze chieftian Walid Jumblat said  that complying with the opposition's demands means working for the interest of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

For this reason the majority is not interested in a unity government in which the Hezbollah-led opposition will have a veto power.

He said this veto power is for use by Syria and Iran, asserting that the Hezbollah-led opposition aims at eliminating the state of Lebanon.

Jumblat painted Hezbollah as paid agents for Iran and Syria and all Nasrallah is doing is implementing Syrian and Iranian orders with absolutely no concern for the wellbeing of Lebanon.

He also said that anti-government factions are eying the justice ministry in the future cabinet to obstruct the trial of ex-Premier Rafic Hariri's assassins in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

This constitutes "a threat to the tribunal," Jumblat said.

He suggested giving the opposition 10 cabinet seats, the president 6 and the majority getting 14 ministers in the government.

Jumblat also launched a vehement attack on the Assad regime and described the assassination of Brig. Gen. Francois el-Hajj last month as "a message to all the Lebanese that they don't have the right to choose their president."

The following are the main points made by jublat during the intervie:

• We do not want a "gathering of tribes, we want a state" and asked Nasrallah whether he and his allies recognize Lebanon as an independent state.
• A political agreement is needed to avoid exhausting the army.
• "I thank God that my father died in 1977 and did not witness what we are going through.
• Lebanon "is not Aleppo or Houran, Lebanon is an independent country."
• March 14 Presidential candidate Nassib Lahoud supported the nomination of Army Commander Gen. Michel Suleiman for president.
• Nasrallah "is not a free man and his decision-making is not free."
• It is not Israel that is killing Lebanese civilians these days.
• Lebanon was a democratic country "before Bashar and his father were born."
• The March 14 alliance is a pluralist group.
• Nasrallah would not be able to contradict a fatwa by Khamenei that the Siniora government is illegitimate.
• "I wouldn't go into negotiations if a gun is pointed to my head."
• "We don't want Beirut changed into another Baghdad."
• The campaign targeting Premier Fouad Siniora is of a factional nature.
• He would not allow Syria and Iran to control decision-making in Lebanon.
• There is only one negotiator facing March 14 and that is Hezbollah.
• The majority would not give the opposition veto powers in any government because that would allow Syria and Ahmadinejad to block Lebanon's political process.
• Palestinian bases outside refugee camps are "Syrian bases."
• The resistance should be absorbed in the Army and the decision of going into war should be in the hands of the Lebanese authorities, Jumblat said.
• The assassination of Brig. Gen. Francois el-Hajj was a message to the Lebanese that you are not entitled to choose your president.
• The opposition aims at eliminating the state of Lebanon.
• Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun is not a principal negotiator.
• Jumblat said Hezbollah is morally responsible for attacks staged by Syrian intelligence in Lebanon.
• Syria will not recognize that Shebaa Farms are Lebanese territory because it wants Lebanon to remain under U.N. Security Council resolution 242.
• Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mouallem has no authority to discuss the Lebanon situation.
• Normalization of relations with Syria should be based on Syrian recognition of Lebanon as an independent and sovereign state.
• Stressed that the borders are open for Hezbollah weapons from Iran to Lebanon via Syria.
• If Hezbollah changed Lebanon into an Iranian-like state it would justify the existence of Israel as a Jewish state.
• Pondered if Hezbollah can survive as a political party without Iranian financing and Iranian Weapons?

Source: Lebanonwire, Yalibnan, Naharnet