Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Sunday, June 20, 2021
A look back at Raisi’s visit to the Lebanon-Israel border
Three years ago, Iran’s President-elect Ebrahim Raisi toured Lebanon’s border with Israel and spoke with top Hezbollah officials about the frontier with the Jewish state.
“Soon we will witness the liberation of Jerusalem,” he said at the time.
Here is a photo from that visit.
Iranian media releases a photo of former presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi, visiting the #Israel–#Lebanon border, meeting with Hezbollah pic.twitter.com/acKwNXHBtY
— Michael A. Horowitz (@michaelh992) January 31, 2018