Report: Iran won't play role in south Lebanon reconstruction
Tehran has informed the relevant parties that it is “not concerned” with reconstruction operations in south Lebanon when the current confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah ends, a media report said.
Iran has argued that Israel’s war machine is to blame for the destruction, Lebanon’s Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Thursday.
Tehran said that its experience during the eight-year war with Iraq in the 1980s “did not lead to Iran getting compensations from the former Soviet Union after Iraq’s use of Soviet weapons back then,” the daily said.
Cross-border exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah have killed at least 271 people on the Lebanese side since October 8, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also including 42 civilians. On the Israeli side, 10 soldiers and six civilians have been killed, according to the Israeli army.
Israel’s attacks have also caused major destruction in south Lebanon’s border towns and tens of thousands of residents have been displaced.
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