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Lebanon Slams 'Blatant Interference' Over Remarks Attributed To Iran Official

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati (R) meets with Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (L) in Beirut on October 12, 2024. (Credit: AFP)

Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Friday offered a rare rebuke of Iran, charging it with "blatant interference" over remarks attributed to its parliament speaker on a UN resolution on Hezbollah and Lebanon.

The Security Council resolution, adopted in 2006 and which states that only the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers should be deployed in southern Lebanon, has come into focus during the latest Israel-Hezbollah war.

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