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Iran is ready to ship more fuel to Lebanon if needed
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TEHRAN, 24 August 2021, (TON): Iran says “it is ready to ship more fuel to Lebanon if needed, a day after the leader of Lebanon’s Iran-aligned Hezbollah group said more vessels carrying Iranian fuel would sail soon to help ease the country’s energy crisis.”
Hezbollah’s foes in Lebanon have warned of dire consequences from the purchase, saying it risked sanctions being imposed on a country whose economy has been in meltdown for nearly two years.
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said “we sell our oil and its products based on our own decisions and the needs of our friend. Iran is ready to send fuel again to Lebanon if needed.”
“Certainly we cannot see the suffering of the Lebanese people.”
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said the first vessel shipping Iranian fuel to Lebanon, which the group announced on last Thursday was about to leave Iran, had already sailed.
He said “a second ship will set sail in the next few days, and it will be followed by others.”
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