Syrian President Bashar al-Assad went ballistic on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a phone conversation, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Siyassah reported on Wednesday. Sources close to the Syrian leader told the newspaper that Assad had called the Iranian president to discuss AhmadinejadÂ’s meeting with Saudi ArabiaÂ’s King Abdullah in Riyadh.
However, the conversation reportedly turned ugly when Ahmadinejad voiced support for the establishment of an international tribunal to investigate the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri - a sensitive subject for Syria, which has been suspected of involvement in the Lebanese leaderÂ’s death. The report said that Assad burst into an angry tirade and even cursed the Iranians at the end of the conversation. |