(18 Sep 2024)
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++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
ARCHIVE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Beirut, Lebanon - 31 July 2024
1. Wide of Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, walking into news conference room
2. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mojtaba Amani, Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon: ++PARTLY OVERLAID BY VOICE OF ARABIC INTERPRETER++
"Iran has never been after spreading the war in the region. But they must know that Iran will not allow the region to be governed by America and Israel."
3. Various of attendees and press at news conference
4. Amani leaving news conference
STORYLINE:
Iran’s Ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani was being treated in hospital on Wednesday after he was injured by a pager explosion a day earlier.
Pagers used by the militant group Hezbollah exploded near-simultaneously on Tuesday in Lebanon and Syria, killing at least nine people, including an 8-year-old girl, and wounding nearly 3,000.
Hezbollah and the Lebanese government blamed Israel for what appeared to be a sophisticated remote attack.
An American official said Israel briefed the United States on Tuesday after the conclusion of the operation, in which small amounts of explosive secreted in the pagers were detonated.
The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the information publicly.
The attack came amid rising tensions between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah, which have exchanged fire across the Israel-Lebanon border since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that sparked the war in Gaza.
In July this year, Amani condemned the killing of Hamas' top leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, an assassination that both Hamas and the Islamic Republic blamed on Israel.
AP video shot by Fay Abuelgasim
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