In Lebanon, Iran FM visits Israel border, extolls Hezbollah
Iran's top diplomat has visited Lebanon's border with Israel where he expressed support for Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah in its struggle against their common enemy: Israel.
Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian began his visit to Lebanon on Wednesday, meeting top officials and expressing Tehran's readiness to help build power stations in an effort to try to end the small country's prevailing electricity crisis.
Earlier this month, Israel launched rare strikes into southern Lebanon, hours after militants fired nearly three dozen rockets from there at Israel. The Israeli military said at the time that it targeted installations of the Palestinian militant Hamas group in southern Lebanon.
Iran is a main Hezbollah backer and has supplied the militant group over the past decades with weapons and funds.
"We are here today ... to declare again with a loud voice that we support the resistance in Lebanon against the Zionist entity," Amirabdollahian told a gathering that included several Hezbollah legislators in the border village of Maroun al-Ras.