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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will deliver speech at Hezbollah base.
By SIMON McGREGOR-WOOD
• 3 min read
BEIRUT, Lebanon Oct. 13, 2010 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran touched down in Beirut today for a deeply divisive two day visit to Lebanon, offering support to its militant Islamic ally Hezbollah and a not-so-veiled warning to Israel.
The trip to Lebanon is the first for the Iranian leader since his election in 2005 and comes at a time of high political tension in the country.
Tens of thousands of his supporters lined his route from the airport. Huge posters hung from every lamp post and as he passed by in his open topped car, people threw sweets and rice in traditional gestures of welcome.
Today Pope Benedict concluded the first day of his three-day journey to Lebanon. Below are excerpts from the three addresses the Holy Father delivered on Day One of the trip, starting with his Q&A with journalists on the Beirut-bound airplane, the full transcript of which can be read here.
Q: In the context of the wave of desire for democracy which is underway in many countries of the Middle East through the so-called Arab Spring, and given the social conditions in the majority of these countries where Christians are a minority, is there not a risk of inevitable tensions between the dominant majority and the survival of Christianity?