In Lebanon, Iran FM visits Israel border, extolls Hezbollah

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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate BEIRUT (AP) — Iran’s top diplomat visited Lebanon’s border with Israel on Friday where he expressed support for the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group in its struggle against their common enemy: Israel. Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian began his visit to Lebanon since Wednesday, meeting top officials and expressing Tehran’s readiness to help build power stations in an effort to try to end the Mediterranean country’s prevailing electricity crisis. Lebanon is in the throes of the worst economic crisis in its modern history, rooted in decades of corruption and mismanagement by...