Democratic Gathering leader Walid Jumblatt accused the West of abandoning Lebanon, saying "dictators" like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should be toppled. "The two dictators ought to be overthrown," Jumblatt said in an interview with the French daily Le Figaro.Jumblatt stressed that Syria and Iran as well as their Lebanese allies "want to create void so they can slowly and steadily impose control over (Lebanon)." He said that "we might not be able to stop that," vowing, however, not to give up.
Jumblatt also pointed the finger at Hezbollah for the series of car bombing attacks that have hit Lebanon recently. "I accuse Hezbollah directly Â… when you are capable of possessing rockets with a 300-kilometer range, you own everything," Jumblatt told Le Figaro.