Khaddam calls on Assad to leave

Abdel Halim Khaddam, the former Syrian Vice President, said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must leave power. This statement comes a few days after he accused him of threatening former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri

Khaddam said in an interview with the French channel France 3 from his residence in Paris that Assad must go “home...to prison,” adding that “what is important is to save Syria from this regime.”

Khaddam added that those behind the recent assassinations in Lebanon “will continue to kill because their goal is to spread chaos in this country,” saying that his life is now in danger, but he is not afraid.

Interrogation of Al-Sharaa and Al-Assad

Khaddam had accused, in a television interview with Al-Arabiya channel a week ago, the Syrian President of threatening Rafik Hariri, which prompted the UN investigation committee to request that he be interrogated alongside Foreign Minister Farouk Al-Sharaa, who was quoted by the Damascus ambassador to the United Nations as being ready to hold the meeting, while Damascus’ position is not yet known. From Assad's interrogation

Khaddam's statements ended with his expulsion from the Baath Party, and yesterday the Syrian Ministry of Finance announced a decision to seize his movable and immovable assets, and those belonging to his wife, children, and grandchildren, male and female, and their spouses, in response to the demands of the Syrian People's Assembly, which accused him of treason, and in response to the Syrian Council of Ministers' decision to open an investigation into corruption files implicating him