Hungary privately offered to help Iran investigate the 2024 pager attack in Lebanon, according to a newly reported transcript that is drawing fresh scrutiny over Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's foreign policy and his government's ties to actors on both sides of the Middle East conflict.
The report, published Wednesday by The Washington Post, detailed that Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó told Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi that Budapest's intelligence services would share what they had gathered after the attack. The report also lands at a sensitive time for Hungary, just days before a high-stakes election and during a visit by Vice President JD Vance to support Orbán.
