 Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi on Monday condemned the assassination of Lebanese MP Gibran Tueni. Tueni was killed in a car bomb in a Beirut suburb on Monday. âThis inhuman act is in line with the ominous goals of the Zionist regime and the enemies of Lebanonâs unity and security,â he said.
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Asefi said that the Islamic Republic of Iran always supports efforts to maintain peace and security in Lebanon, adding that due to the current sensitive juncture all Lebanese groups and people should strive to neutralize the plots of their enemies through vigilance. The Lebanese Christian MP, Tueni, who was also a prominent journalist and the director of the Lebanese daily Al-Nahar, was killed after a bomb blew up in his vehicle blasting it off the road and setting it ablaze. Firemen recovered the body of Tueni, 48, that of his driver Nicolas Flouti and two other people. Ten other people were wounded, two of them seriously, in the attack at around 9 am (0700 GMT) in the Christian suburb of Mkalles. |