"Stop intimidating the people to put them under your mercy and the mercy of your weapons," he added.

Speaking on Tuesday during a commemoration of Ashoura at his Srifa residence, Asaad, the son of former speaker of parliament Kamal Asaad said Shiites in Lebanon had nothing to gain from aligning themselves with Iran.

"What are we, the Shiites, going to gain from this adherence to Iran? Is it technology? Education? Civilization? Democracy, or what?" he asked. Iran has nothing to offer us he said and furthermore "Persians never loved or defended the Arabs. Haven't the Persians always despised the Arabs?"

Asaad said the Shiite community was being used as "fuel to defend the Iranian regime."

Asaad also criticized Hezbollah's rejection of the reform plan submitted by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora at the Paris III donor conference.

"You criticize Paris III, but what is your alternative?" Asaad asked Nasrallah. "Apart from slogans, where is your detailed program to resolve the public debt, increase economic growth and create job opportunities?"

"What about your plans to fight corruption in Lebanon ?"

While expressing support for Siniora's plan "in theory," Asaad said he hoped the proposed reforms would be implemented "in an appropriate way."

Taking aim at the speaker of Parliament, Asaad said Nabih Berri was a "confused and embarrassed man who doesn't know how to behave and acts contrary to his beliefs."

The opposition in general was also taken to task, the leaders of which, Asaad said, were not up to fighting corruption.

"Can the most important symbols of corruption in the era of Syrian tutelage undertake reforms and fight corruption?" he asked.

Amal movement is finished

In an interview earlier this year Asaad said there is no more Amal movement...meaning it has been taken over by Hezbollah. Similarly this applies to its leader Nabih Berri who lost his independence and his credibility after the war and is now following the footsteps of the Hezbollah organization.

He compares Hezbollah to the former communist regimes which commanded almost 100 % of the support of the electorate because of their intimidation techniques... The moment the communist system collapsed so did the regime .

Asaad thinks Hezbollah will fall apart as soon as the Shiites in Lebanon will realize that this organization is leading them to self destruction as the last war with Israel has shown.