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2025-12-15 19:51
By Shahrokh Saei
Israel’s media war fails to divide Iran and Lebanon
TEHRAN – Israeli media and their affiliates recently tried to stir the pot, spotlighting a brief back-and-forth between Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Lebanese counterpart Youssef Raggi, in an effort to paint the two countries as being at odds.
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2025-12-13 21:13
By Shahrokh Saei
Who benefits from a disarmed Lebanon?
TEHRAN – Lebanon’s fragile ceasefire with Israel, brokered in late November 2024 by the United States and France, was meant to halt hostilities and open the door to a negotiated settlement. Yet more than a year later, the truce has proven largely illusory. Israel continues near-daily strikes on Lebanese territory, claiming to target Hezbollah compounds and rocket launch sites, but offering no verifiable evidence to substantiate its assertions.
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2025-12-13 19:46
By Wesam Bahrani
Lebanese foreign minister's comments draw criticism
TEHRAN - Lebanon’s top diplomat, Youssef Raggi, has raised eyebrows inside the Arab country with his unfriendly remarks against Iran and the Hezbollah resistance movement.
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2025-12-13 19:37
Lebanon FM withholds credentials of Iran’s ambassador: report
The Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar has reported that Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi is deliberately obstructing the accreditation of Iran’s newly appointed ambassador to Beirut, in what the paper describes as a violation of established diplomatic protocol.
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2025-12-13 19:05
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Youssef Raggi’s diplomatic derailment
When will Lebanese leadership restore institutional discipline?
BEIRUT—Handpicked by the Lebanese Forces (LF), Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi has, since taking office, behaved less like a custodian of national diplomacy and more like a partisan activist focused only on a narrow ideological agenda.