Reference News Network, March 13 report: According to AFP, on March 12, after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed to have launched a missile attack on Israel in collaboration with the Lebanese Hezbollah, the Lebanese Foreign Minister Yousef Al-Lajj summoned the acting ambassador of the Iranian embassy in Lebanon.
Lajj said on the social media platform X on the 12th: "I reject any interference in Lebanon's internal affairs and will summon the acting Iranian ambassador tomorrow."
He also said that the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs "has expressed firm opposition to a series of events and statements that clearly violate the country's sovereignty and the decisions of the Lebanese government."
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced early on the 12th that it had conducted a "unified joint operation" with its ally Hezbollah, launching missiles and drones from Iran's territory and Lebanon toward Israel.
The Lebanese government had previously declared a ban on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps conducting any activities within Lebanon.
The country's government also took an unprecedented measure: banning Hezbollah from engaging in military activities and requiring the organization to hand over its weapons to the state.
A Lebanese official told AFP that on the 8th, more than 100 Iranian citizens, including some diplomatic staff, evacuated from Beirut on a Russian flight.
Iran accused Israel on the 10th of carrying out a "terrorist attack" on a hotel in the coastal area of Beirut last weekend, which resulted in the death of four Iranian diplomats.
The Israeli military admitted to carrying out the attack, stating that it was a "precision strike against key personnel of the Quds Force responsible for the Revolutionary Guards' overseas operations." (Translated by Wang Dongdong)
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