The newspaper also reported that Mughniyeh’s widow, who is Iranian was extremely angered by the murder of her husband and blamed it on “treason and treachery” without expanding what she meant and whom she had in mind as the traitors .

Mughniyeh’s widow requested immediate departure from Syria to either Lebanon or Iran , but the Iranian embassy decided to take her to Tehran away from the Lebanese media . Okaz wrote

Many intelligence experts are of the opinion that the assassination of Mughniyeh could only have taken place with the collaboration of the Syrian intelligence . These experts do not deny that Israel may be behind the assassination , but the job could not have been done without the help and collaboration of the Syrians. After all one expert who did not want his name revealed for fear from the Syrian intelligence said " Syria and Israel enjoy the most peaceful borders and not one shot was fired by Syria in the occupied Golan Heights since the Assad dynasty took control of Syria" . The expert continued " Israel loves the Syrian regime and has been fighting the Americans who wanted to change that regime for the past 3 years , ever since Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated in 2005 "

Syria is currently probing the murder of Mughniyeh on its own as Foreign Minister walid Mouallem has declared . But, given the possible implications of the Syrian intelligence in this crime , many doubt Damascus regime’s abilities in probing such a murder, specially since Assef Shawkat , the top man of the Syrian intelligence is the brother-in- law of the Syrian president Bashar al Assad.

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