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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.