(10 Feb 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon - 10 February 2024
1. Abdallah Bouhabib, Lebanon's Foreign Minister and Hossein Amirabdollahian, Iranian Foreign Minister, entering briefing
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdallah Bouhabib, Lebanon's foreign minister:
“Lebanon has never wanted war and is not seeking it. We want stability and calm, and the return of rights to their owners, and there is a similarity of views (between Lebanon and Iran) regarding the dangers resulting from the continuation of the war on Gaza and the continuing crimes against the Palestinians, which undermines the chances of peace. Fair and comprehensive in the region.“
3. Mid of Bouhabib and Amirabdollahian during briefing
4. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Hossein Amirabdollahian, Iranian foreign minister:
"Tehran and Beirut always emphasize that war is not the solution and we have never welcomed the expansion of war across the region."
5. Mid of Bouhabib and Amirabdollahian during briefing
6. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Hossein Amirabdollahian, Iranian foreign minister:
"Of course, it's obvious to the world that over four months of war and genocide in Gaza and the West Bank has had no tangible achievements for the Zionist regime and its supporters."
7. Wide of briefing
8. Bouhabib and Amirabdollahian leaving briefing
STORYLINE:
Iran and Lebanon said on Saturday neither country sought an expansion of the war in the Middle East and both called for the conflict in Gaza to end.
"Lebanon has never wanted war and is not seeking it," Lebanon's foreign minister, Abdallah Bouhabib, said in a joint briefing with his Iranian counterpart.
He stressed Lebanon wanted "stability and calm" and that Beirut and Tehran shared the similar view "regarding the dangers resulting from the continuation of the war" in Gaza which he said "undermines the chances of peace".
"Tehran and Beirut always emphasize that war is not the solution and we have never welcomed the expansion of war across region," Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian added.
During his visit to Lebanon Amirabdollahian has met in Beirut with Lebanese leaders including the country’s caretaker prime minister, parliament speaker and the head of the militant Hezbollah group.
He told reporters after his meeting with counterpart Bouhabib that after four months of war, Israel and its backers had made "no tangible achievements".
Meanwhile, an Israeli drone struck a car near Lebanon’s southern port city of Sidon on Saturday, killing at least two people and wounding two others, security officials said.
The drone strike near the coastal town of Jadra took place about 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the Israeli border, making it one of the farthest inside Lebanon since violence erupted along the Lebanon-Israel border on Oct. 8, a day after Hamas’ attack in southern Israel.
Two Lebanese security officials said the strike damaged a car and killed two people, including one on a motorcycle. They spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
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