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BEIRUT (Reuters) -Iran backs any decision taken by Lebanon in talks to secure a ceasefire with Israel, a senior Iranian official said on Friday, signalling Tehran wants to see an end to a conflict ...
Lebanon's government and Hezbollah, an Iran-backed group that uses the nation as a base for its militants, both blamed Israel for the attacks on wireless electronic devices. Many people lost eyes ...
Lebanon's Health Ministry said Tuesday that the previous 24 hours saw at least 95 people killed and 172 wounded by Israeli strikes in Lebanon's southern regions, the eastern Bekaa Valley and Beirut.
Relations between Iran and Lebanon during the reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi occurred in two phases: [2] The first phase lasted from the mid-1950s to the 1967 June war [2] and was closely affected by the policies of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, which led the Shah to support the government of Lebanon as well as other anti-Nasser governments in the Middle East; [2] the second ...
Relations between Iran and Lebanon have historical roots that precede the establishment of modern Lebanon. In the 16th century, the Safavid dynasty adopted Shiism as the official religion, deviating from the prevailing Sunni Islam in the region, enlisted Shiite clerics from Jabal Amel, a region in south Lebanon which already had a Shiite community established since the 11th century, to promote ...
The newspaper was founded by Mohammad Beheshti in 1979 following the Iranian Revolution as a self-proclaimed "voice of the Islamic Revolution". [4] [5] In 2002, the Tehran Times established a news agency which later came to be known as the Mehr News Agency (MNA). Now, the Tehran Times and the MNA are run by a single management system.
Iran said Tuesday's assault on Israel was solely aimed at military facilities and was a response to Israeli killings of militant leaders including Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and aggression ...
Iran's ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani, pictured in July, was among those injured, according to semi-official Iranian media outlet Mehr News. - Mohamed Azakir/Reuters ... USA TODAY. Palisades ...