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full screen Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, photographed during Friday’s visit to Beirut in Lebanon. Photo: Hassan Ammar/AP/TT
The response will be comprehensive and “commensurate with Israel’s aggression”.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is on a surprise visit to Beirut in Lebanon, where he will meet with Prime Minister Najib Mikati, among other things. The visit is the first since the fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Shia militia Hezbollah escalated in Lebanon, and Argahchi promises “firm support”.
– The Islamic Republic of Iran stands and will firmly stand by the friends in Lebanon, says Araghchi – and clarifies that this applies to Lebanon as well as the Shia militia Hezbollah and that this was “necessary to say personally”.
Iran will “proportionately respond” to Israel’s attacks while talks are ongoing with other countries to achieve a ceasefire, Araghchi said, according to Turkish news agency Anatolia’s post on X.
AFP reports that the foreign minister is behind attempts to bring about parallel ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon.