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US-Iran deal met with hope, scepticism in Mideast

Some Lebanese returned to their hometowns. (Photo: AFP)

PARIS — The deal between the United States and Iran to end their war, negotiated in secret and still not revealed in detail, was greeted with scepticism but a measure of relief among ordinary people across the Middle East.

In Lebanon, Agence France-Presse (AFP) saw displaced people preparing to return to homes they fled in the south of the country, despite Israeli ministers declaring that they do not feel bound by the agreement to halt their own offensive against Hezbollah.

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