Iran condemns attacks in Lebanon involving exploding communications devices

Iran condemns attacks in Lebanon yesterday and today that involved exploding communications devices, government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani says in a post on the X social media platform, offering help to the wounded.

Hand-held radios used by Hezbollah detonated today across Lebanon killing at least nine people and more than 300 injured, further stoking tensions with Israel a day after similar explosions launched via the group’s pagers which caused 12 fatalities.

“The terrorism of the Zionist regime causes aversion and disgust. Iran strongly condemns yesterday’s criminal explosion of communication devices and today’s criminal explosion of walkie-talkies, which resulted in the death and injury of hundreds of Lebanese civilians,” Mohajerani says.

Israel has not commented on the attacks.

Earlier in the day, according to state media, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian had said: “The incident in Lebanon shows once again that Western countries and the United States, despite claiming to seek a ceasefire, fully support the crimes, massacres and blind terrorism of the Zionist regime in practice.”