Hezbollah-affiliated transport minister claims ‘nothing to hide’ in Beirut airport, invites press to tour facilities

Lebanon’s Hezbollah-affiliated Minister of Public Works and Transport Ali Hamieh holds a press conference at the Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport after whistleblowers allege that it is used by Hezbollah to store Iranian weapons.

Dismissing the “ridiculous” allegations, Hamieh says his office is in the process of filing a lawsuit against UK newspaper The Telegraph, which published the report, and says details of the lawsuit would be “announced later.”

Hamieh then invites journalists and ambassadors to take a tour of the airport’s facilities on Monday morning, to prove that “there is nothing to hide,” Lebanese media reports.

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