Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea questioned on Wednesday Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's opposition to the United States-led strikes against jihadist Islamic State positions in the region.

He asked Nasrallah: “Would you have maintained your initial rejection of the international coalition against the IS had Iran been part of it?”

French President Francois Hollande told Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani during a meeting at U.N. headquarters Tuesday that "every support" was required to find political solutions with regard to Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.

"We need every support to find political solutions," Hollande said during the 20-minute meeting at the French delegation at the U.N., to which the press were admitted for the first few moments.

Iran condemned the U.S.-led strikes on jihadist militants in Syria on Tuesday as a violation of the country's sovereignty.

"Any kind of military intervention in Syria without the demand of the government of this country and without abiding by international laws is not acceptable," Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was quoted as saying by official news agency IRNA.

Iran on Tuesday unveiled a new missile-equipped drone to boost its military arsenal, as part of events marking the end of its 1980-1988 war against Iraq.

Iranian engineers working for the armed forces have "built the drones to carry air defense missiles", deputy defense minister General Amir Hatami said, quoted by Fars news agency.

Two Iranians arrested in Kenya last week with fake Israeli passports appeared in a Nairobi court Tuesday and pleaded guilty to being in possession of forged documents.

The accused, identified as Hesamoddin Hatami alias Avsalom Tsabari and Zahra Kolabian, alias Adi Larian, told the court that they were attempting to seek asylum.

The family of a former U.S. Marine imprisoned in Iran appealed on Monday directly to the Iranian president, due in New York for the U.N. General Assembly, to secure his release.

Amir Hekmati, 31, has been held for three years. His father, a microbiology professor, has been diagnosed with brain cancer and recently suffered a stroke, and is desperate to see his son.

The United States warned Monday it would not trade concessions on Iran's nuclear program for Tehran's cooperation in combating the Islamic State group.

Ahead of the UN General Assembly in New York, and with nuclear talks with Iran, known as the P5+1, at a critical point, Washington made its most explicit statement yet that the two issues were not linked -- reflecting growing political pressure on the White House.

Kenyan police said on Monday that two Iranians arrested in Nairobi last week carrying fake Israeli passports are being treated as illegal migrants.

"They will be charged by the immigration authorities for being in the possession of forged passports," John Mulaulu, acting head of the anti-terrorism police unit, told AFP.

Eleven Iranians accused of sending insulting SMS text messages about Islamic republic founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini have been arrested in the southern province of Shiraz, a newspaper reported on Monday.

"After monitoring social network applications on mobile phones like WhatsApp, Viber, Line and Tango... 11 people were arrested," the provincial Revolutionary Guards chief, General Esmail Mohebipour, said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday warned the West against easing sanctions on Iran to win its support in the fight against jihadists in Syria and Iraq.

As the Islamic republic and six world powers started a new round of talks in New York on the Iranian nuclear program, Netanyahu said "respected commentators in the West" were counseling a softer approach to enlist Tehran in an alliance against Islamic State militants.