Ceasefire in Lebanon ‘as important’ as in Iran, says Ghalibaf

Tehran ‘striving’ to compel US and Israel to found imperishable ceasefire successful each struggle zones, Iranian parliament talker tells Lebanese counterpart.

Iran’s salient talker of parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has told his Lebanese counterpart that a ceasefire successful Lebanon is “as important” arsenic 1 successful Iran, according to a connection posted connected Telegram.

In talks to extremity the warfare betwixt Iran and the United States, Ghalibaf wrote connected Thursday that Tehran has “been striving to compel our enemies to found a imperishable ceasefire successful each the struggle zones, successful accordance with the agreement”.

“For us, a ceasefire successful Lebanon is conscionable arsenic important arsenic a ceasefire successful Iran,” helium said helium told Lebanon’s Nabih Berri successful a telephone conversation.

Ghalibaf led the Iranian delegation astatine the archetypal US-Iran gathering successful Pakistan past week, which ended without a deal.

Tehran has consistently said that the Iran warfare ceasefire indispensable use to Lebanon arsenic well, thing the US and Israel assertion is not portion of the deal.

Ghalibaf told Berri that the Iranians “have ne'er forgotten our Lebanese brothers and see them to beryllium among us”, the station connected Telegram added.

The Lebanese parliament talker past elaborate the latest Israeli attacks connected Lebanon, the station continued, and told Ghalibaf that truthful acold 1.2 cardinal Lebanese radical person been displaced by the fighting.

“Israel is virtually committing crimes successful our state and seeking to displace Lebanese people,” the station quoted Berri arsenic saying.

“Any authoritative connection and consultation with the Zionist authorities [Israel] is decidedly not successful the interests of the Lebanese people,” Berri told Ghalibaf, adding that helium appreciated Iran’s efforts successful helping to unafraid a ceasefire successful Lebanon.

Lebanon was pulled into the US-Israel warfare connected Iran connected March 2, aft Tehran-aligned Hezbollah fired rockets astatine Israel.

Hezbollah said the attacks were successful retaliation for Israel’s sidesplitting of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei connected the archetypal time of the war, connected February 28, arsenic good arsenic Israel’s near-daily violations of a ceasefire it agreed to successful Lebanon successful November 2024.

Since then, Israeli forces person killed much than 2,000 radical successful Lebanon.

Late connected Wednesday, US President Donald Trump announced that the leaders of Israel and Lebanon volition talk to each different for the archetypal clip successful 34 years connected Thursday. Although an Israeli authoritative confirmed the reports, the Lebanese authorities has not yet commented.