Iran's acting foreign minister begins visit to Lebanon
Iran’s acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani began an official visit to Lebanon on Monday by meeting with caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib. He later met with Speaker Nabih Berri and caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati.
Bagheri Kani replaced the late foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who died last month in a helicopter crash in Iran along with president Ebrahim Raisi and other passengers.
“We agreed on an initiative to hold an emergency meeting for the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in order to take a collective step aimed at halting the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip,” Bagheri Kani said after the meeting.
“The firm relations between Iran and Lebanon are an essential indicator for stability in the region,” the Iranian official said.
“There is cooperation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Lebanon, and Iran has always sought to achieve security and stability in Lebanon and to enhance the Lebanese people’s advancement and prosperity,” Bagheri Kani added.
“Resistance is the basis of firmness and stability in the region and we tackled the developments in Gaza and Rafah,” he went on to say, noting that “the main objective behind the visit is to express gratitude and appreciation to the Lebanese people and government for their participation in the funeral of the Iranian president and foreign minister.”
Bou Habib for his part said they discussed the situation in the south, explaining to Bagheri Kani “the sustainable solutions that can restore security in the country.”
“The Iranian minister stressed his country’s keenness on the return of stability in Lebanon,” Bou Habib added, noting that he emphasized “Lebanon’s stance that rejects war.”
Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported that Bagheri Kani would visit Lebanon and then Syria “to meet with the two countries’ officials as well as the officials of the resistance front to discuss ways to counter (Israel).”
Iran backs a number of armed factions in the region, of which Lebanon's Hezbollah is widely seen as the most powerful.
Hezbollah has been clashing with Israeli forces along the Lebanon-Israel border since October, against the backdrop of Israel’s war against the allied Hamas group in Gaza. The cross-border fighting has intensified in recent weeks, since Israel's incursion into the key town of Rafah in southern Gaza.
The border fighting has killed more than 400 people on the Lebanese side — most of them militants but also including more than 70 civilians and noncombatants — and at least 15 soldiers and 10 civilians on the Israeli side.
The danger of a direct conflict between Iran and Israel has also risen since Oct. 7.
An Israeli airstrike on an Iranian consulate in Syria in April triggered a series of escalatory attacks between Iran and Israel that threatened to set off a wider war, although the two regional archrivals have recently seemed to dial back tensions.
03 June 2024, 16:10
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The Iranian use of Lebanon and Syria as tools is the cause of the need for a "return of stability in Lebanon”, the Iranian minister's stressed as his keenness. Maybe he should take his consultations and not return without proving the massive financial resources Lebanon needs to rebuild after the Beirut port explosion, displacement in the South, and corruption along the Eastern border.
03 June 2024, 20:59
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"In response to comments made by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who claimed that the October 7 attack on Israel was necessary to thwart a US-backed plot in the Middle East, the Palestinian Presidency said "such comments aim to 'sacrifice Palestinian blood' and would not lead to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
“The Palestinian people have been fighting and struggling for a hundred years, and they do not need wars that do not serve their ambitions for freedom and independence,” the presidency said, as quoted by the official WAFA Palestinian news agency.
Source; https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2024/06/03/iran-s-khamenei-says-middle-east-needed-hamas-october-7-attack-on-israel
Persians .. can't live with them .. would love to live without them ..
03 June 2024, 23:09
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But of course Iran, Hizb and Houthis will contribute $billions for rebuilding Gaza. We'll keep track and report back so everyone is aware on how profound and sincere their love for Palestinians and their economic wellbeing.
03 June 2024, 23:35
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Bagheri is another vulture feeding on people miseries. Rarely has there been a more destructive regime in human history, soiling one of the world’s greatest civilization. A pure force of evil, wasting immense natural & human resources to ferment wars & misery all around. From Suleimani’s kiss of death spreading misery, arms and radicalism to Shia communities. Destabilizing countries and destroying economies for easy occupation by setting up puppet governments controlled by armed militias. A third of Iranian society revolted in 2010 Green Revolution and were brutally suppressed, imprisoned or exiled. Iranian last year demonstrated by tens of thousands in dozen capitals against this brutal regime. However, regime worst nightmare is regional peace and 2-state solution or Arab prosperity. They killed Hariri for 2002 Beirut Arab Peace Plan and started Gaza war to torpedo Saudi peace plan. Let make sure regional peace is a reality to insure destruction from within of this Vulture Regime.
04 June 2024, 23:52
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2023 UNWRA Top Donors
https://www.unrwa.org/sites/default/files/top_20_donors_overall_ranking_2023.pdf
1. USA: $422,004,945
2. Germany: $212,890,232
3. EU: $120,165,744
4. France: $62,421,104
5. Sweden: $48,893,860
6. Japan: $48,530,158
7. Norway: $45,718,620
8. Netherlands:$40,754,272
9. Canada: $39,385,264
10. UK: $36,872,747
11. Spain: $30,715,278
12. Switzerland:$26,797,659
13. Denmark:$25,533,021
14. USA-UNRWA:$22,258,300
15. Turkiye: $22,103,820
16. Ireland: $19,241,556
17: Saudi Arabia:$17,000,000
18: Belgium: $15,003,330
19: UAE: $15,000,000
20: Australia:$14,542,856
Vultures of Iran contribution? Poison Arms
