Iran says it won’t interfere in Lebanon-Israel border talks

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Week in Review , Andrew Parasiliti , Samuel Wendel

Jan 26, 2024

This picture taken from a position in northern Israel along the border with Lebanon on Jan. 21, 2024, shows smoke billowing over the Lebanese village of Kfar Kila during reported Israeli bombardment, amid ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza. — JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images

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Iranian foreign minister calls cease-fire 'domestic thing for Lebanese'

If the Biden administration were able to broker a deal on the Israel-Lebanon border in line with a UN cease-fire resolution from 2006, Iran would not necessarily object.

“It is a domestic thing for Lebanese," Iran Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told Al-Monitor. "We are not going to have any kind of interference in their internal affairs."

Tensions on the Israel-Lebanon border have flared amid the Israel-Hamas war. Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser to President Joe Biden on energy and investment, has been shuttling between Beirut and Jerusalem seeking to close a deal that could help to de-escalate things.