Boroujerdi Arrives in Lebanon: Iran Keen on Preservation of Security in Lebanon
Chairman of Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Alaeddin Boroujerdi arrived in Lebanon on Thursday a day after Hizbullah launched an attack against an Israeli convoy in the occupied Shebaa Farms that left two Israeli troops dead.
He expressed upon his arrival in Beirut his congratulations to Hizbullah on its operation, which was in retaliation to an Israeli airstrike on January 18 on Syria's Quneitra region that left six party members and an Iranian general dead.
Boroujerdi added: “The Quneitra attack demonstrates that the Zionist entity does not have limits to its crimes.”
He expressed his “sorrow and pride over the martyrs who fell in the airstrike,” saying that Iran will continue to stand by the “Lebanese resistance.”
“Iran places great importance on the preservation of security in Lebanon,” he remarked.
Moreover, Boroujerdi noted: “The developments in Lebanon demonstrate unity and understanding among its factions. Iran will continue to support all that bolsters this unity.”
He is scheduled to attend a ceremony honoring the Quneitra victims set for Friday.
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is expected to make a televised speech on the occasion.
Wednesday's Shebaa Farms operations prompted Israel to shell a number of regions in the South.
A Spanish member of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon was killed in the shelling.
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