BEIRUT, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) — Beirut’s First Investigative Judge Ghassan Oueidat dropped on Monday a case against Saudi Arabia’s Arab Gulf Affairs Minister Thamer Sabhan because it conflicted with Lebanon’s supreme interest, the Daily Star reported. It said Oueidat justified his decision based on the idea that “the tweets made by Minister Sabhan came within the framework of a political opinion imposed on him by his position, and the requirements of the prevailing regional and international politics at that period in time.” Sabhan, a fierce critic of Hezbollah, made inflammatory statements around the time of prime minister Saad Hariri’s abrupt resignation from Riyadh in November. Hariri later went back on that decision. Sabhan wrote in his tweets that “Lebanon, after the resignation, will never be as it was before and we will not accept Lebanon being part of a war against Saudi Arabia.” He also said the Lebanese people would have to choose between supporting or opposing Hezbollah. “This lawsuit conflicts with the supreme interest of Lebanon and the interests of the state,” Oueidat said Monday. He added that his decision to drop the case was also based on the “lack of jurisdiction of courts to assess international relations and disputes.”