Iran Denies Transferring Al-Qaeda Members to Lebanon

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Iran Denies Transferring Al-Qaeda Members to Lebanon

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The Iranian embassy in Beirut has issued a statement, denying Israeli and U.S. allegations that Iran has given shelter to fleeing Al-Qaeda members and transferred them to eastern Lebanon, the Oriental Radio reported on Saturday.

The statement came in response to U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's accusation that Iran was transferring terrorists to the Bekaa valley in eastern Lebanon via Syria.

The statement dismissed these allegations as "untrue and unfounded."

"The Islamic Republic of Iran has long been the victim of terrorism and has paid a dear price in that regard," it said.

It also claimed that "Israel is the number one terrorist state in the world as well as its only sponsor, the United States, which has been subsidizing terrorism by all means and assistance."

Iran finances and provides weapons to the Lebanese resistance guerrilla group Hezbollah, or Party of God, which has been spearheading resistance against Israel and forced the Jewish country to withdraw from southern Lebanon in May 2000.

Hezbollah has been branded by Washington as a terrorist group.

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