Iranian FM visits Lebanon, meets with Hezbollah leader Nasrallah

Gianluca Pacchiani is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel

This handout picture provided by Hezbollah's media office on November 23, 2023, shows Lebanese Shiite group's secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah (2nd-R) meeting with Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (2nd-L) at an undisclosed location in Lebanon. (Hezbollah's Media Office / AFP)
This handout picture provided by Hezbollah's media office on November 23, 2023, shows Lebanese Shiite group's secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah (2nd-R) meeting with Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (2nd-L) at an undisclosed location in Lebanon. (Hezbollah's Media Office / AFP)

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian meets with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah at an undisclosed location in Lebanon.

Amir-Abdollahian arrived yesterday in Beirut for his second visit to Lebanon since October 7, according to the Lebanese news website Naharnet.

After his arrival, he told the Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen news channel that the Gaza war is likely to spread unless the truce between Israel and Hamas, which is supposed to enter into force tomorrow, is maintained.

“If this ceasefire starts tomorrow, if it does not continue… the conditions in the region will not remain the same as before the ceasefire and the scope of the war will expand,” he said.

The Iranian foreign minister held talks in Beirut yesterday with Ziad al-Nakhaleh, secretary general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Khalil Al-Hayya, a member of the Hamas politburo, and other officials from the two terror groups, according to the Iranian official news agency Fars.

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