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Sep 17, 2021

Lebanese welcome Iranian fuel delivery

From the BBC World Service: Despite U.S. sanctions, thousands of tons of Iranian fuel have been delivered to Lebanon. And Italy has become the first country in Europe to mandate that workers provide proof of coronavirus vaccination, recovery from the disease, or a recent negative test, in order to go to work.

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People raise an Iranian flag, as they gather to welcome tankers carrying Iranian fuel, upon their arrival from Syria in the city of Baalbeck, in Lebanon's Bekaa valley, on September 16, 2021. Yellow banners of the Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah and Lebanon's national flag flutter above a slogan addressed to Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah which reads in Arabic: "You broke the sanctions and shattered their arrogance." - Dozens of tankers carrying Iranian fuel and transported by the Shiite Hezbollah movement arrived from Syria in Lebanon, in the grip of severe fuel shortages.
People raise an Iranian flag, as they gather to welcome tankers carrying Iranian fuel, upon their arrival from Syria in the city of Baalbeck, in Lebanon's Bekaa valley, on September 16, 2021. Yellow banners of the Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah and Lebanon's national flag flutter above a slogan addressed to Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah which reads in Arabic: "You broke the sanctions and shattered their arrogance." - Dozens of tankers carrying Iranian fuel and transported by the Shiite Hezbollah movement arrived from Syria in Lebanon, in the grip of severe fuel shortages.
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