Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Any Hariri verdict 'null and void'

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday any findings by an international tribunal into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri would be invalid.  

"This tribunal is a rubber-stamp one whose verdict is null and void whatever it is," state television quoted Khamenei as saying during a meeting with the emir of Qatar. Iran is a supporter of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shi'ite group which says the tribunal is a tool of Israel aimed at discrediting it.