Secretary of State John Kerry noted this week that Iran’s foreign minister was visiting Lebanon, and suggested that such outreach was a sign that ostensible moderates in the Iranian government sought a different, more positive role in the region. In fact Mohammad Javad Zarif’s agenda in Beirut included a meeting with the leader of the Hezbollah terrorist group and a call for Muslim countries to cooperate against the major challenges facing them including “the Zionist entity.”
As Kerry Hails Iranian FM’s Regional ‘Reaching Out,’ Zarif Huddles With Hezbollah
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