Report: Iran's Quds Force chief visits Lebanon
Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, the head of the elite Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, arrived in Beirut on Tuesday on a visit that is not his first since the eruption of the Gaza war, Lebanon’s Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The visit comes a few days ahead of a key speech by Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
Qaani’s presence in Lebanon also coincides with the arrival in the country of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf and French Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu.
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