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- Title: Iranian Military Aid to Lebanon: Useful? (Military-Aid)
- Author : The Weekly Middle East Reporter (Beirut, Lebanon)
- Release Date : January 10, 2010
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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The reverberations of the Lebanese-Israeli border clash of August 3 are still being felt to the point where the Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi has offered to equip the Lebanese army with Iranian arms: "Lebanon and the Lebanese army are our friends, and if there were a request [for arms] we are ready to help," he said August 25, as quoted in the Iranian student news agency ISNA. These comments came on the heels of an Iftar speech by Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah who said on August 24 that Hizbullah would work hard and use its relationship with Iran in order for the Islamic Republic to equip the Lebanese army, reported the pro-Syrian daily AS SAFIR August 25. The August 3 clashes broke out between the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) after members of the IDF attempted to prune a spruce tree lying to the north of Israel's "technical fence" but, as the UN later said, the tree lay on land to the south of the Blue Line, the two countries' de facto border. In the gunfire that erupted, two Lebanese sergeants were killed, along with a 55-year-old Lebanese journalist from the leftwing daily Al Akhbar. An Israeli Lieutenant Colonel was killed by sniper fire and an army Captain was "critically injured" according to an IDF statement. The clashes--and the aftermath--bore out two main points: First, the LAF has, at the very least, some ability to defend Lebanese territory against Israel; second, the supply of arms to the LAF is highly political.