Iranian plane turns back from Beirut airport after warning from Israel

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Iranian plane turns back from Beirut airport after warning from *******

******* hacked Beirut International Airport’s control tower to

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, The Telegraph understands.

The ******* Defense Forces (IDF) on Friday night said that they would ****** down planes ferrying Iranian weapons to support Hezbollah.

Earlier, IDF jets had carried out an airstrike that

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, the leader of the Lebanese ******* group.

With the Iranian plane in the air, Lebanese authorities intervened and ordered it to turn back so it would avoid being fired upon by ******** forces.

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first reported the story, citing a source at Lebanon’s transport ministry saying that ******* threatened to use “force” and that the priority of the ministry is “people’s lives”.

On Saturday, the Islamic Republic’s Iran Air announced that all flights to

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have been “suspended until further notice”.

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Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport – SARY CHMAYTELLI/AFP

A flight tracker meanwhile showed an airplane affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) making a U-turn over Syria.

It’s unclear if this was the plane that was ordered not to land in Beirut, but the IRGC has sent weapons and munitions to Hezbollah in Lebanon for years, often using airplanes.

IRGC generals and advisors also regularly fly between Tehran and Beirut.

******* has launched thousands of attacks against Iranian militants and convoys smuggling weapons to Lebanon from Iran, through Iraq and Syria. ******* has also attacked areas believed to be

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near Damascus airport numerous times in the past decade.

Dror Doron, the senior advisor at ******* Against Nuclear Iran who also served as a senior analyst in the ******** prime minister’s office, told the Telegraph that the smuggling of ballistic missiles and other long-range precision-guided missiles caused ******* to launch a campaign of airstrikes in Syria in 2014 to target convoys carrying the missiles.

Mr Doron said: “******* identified Syria as being a critical element in the route of supplying those missiles.”

On Saturday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, said that ******* could not ******** Hezbollah.

He said: “[********] ********** should know that they are too small to cause significant damage to the strong construction of Hezbollah in Lebanon.”

Tehran has so far sought to avoid being drawn into a wider conflict with *******, and Mr Khamenei’s statement appeared to continue that effort, making no mention of all-out war.

A senior ******** official told The Telegraph that ******* planned

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, the Hezbollah leader, “for years.”

The official added that the last thing Nasrallah saw was Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the UN on TV. He said: “He was sure he knew the Israelis, but he didn’t understand what was coming.

“The Iranians used Lebanon and abandoned it at the first opportunity. The whole world sees that the Iranians are a paper tiger. When the Lebanese soldiers started paying the price for Iran, Khamenei simply abandoned them. The Iranians used Lebanon and now have left it behind. Khamenei exploited Lebanon and discarded it.”

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