Ahmadinejad visit stirs up Lebanon’s perennially volatile politics
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to the crowds on his arrival in Beirut. Photograph: Mahmoud Tawil/AP Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is enjoying a far warmer welcome in Lebanon than he usually gets on his foreign trips – certainly more than at the UN last month when he provoked outrage by suggesting that the US might have organised the 9/11 attacks to protect Israel. Beset by economic problems and infighting in Tehran, he is being received as a VIP by the Lebanese government – though he is not…
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Ahmadinejad visit stirs up Lebanon’s perennially volatile politics
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