Among those wounded in the pager blasts on Tuesday was Iran's ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani, with Iranian media reporting he suffered injuries “to the hand and the face”.
This picture taken from Israel along the border with Lebanon shows smoke billowing above the Lebanese village of Blida amid Israel i bombardment on September 17. Picture: Jalaa MAREY / AFPIran accused Israel on Wednesday of"mass murder" after paging devices belonging to the Tehran-aligned Hezbollah group in Lebanon exploded, killing nine people and wounding nearly 3,000 others.
Among those wounded in the pager blasts on Tuesday was Iran's ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani, with Iranian media reporting he suffered injuries “to the hand and the face”.The Iranian Red Crescent said on Wednesday it had dispatched"rescue teams and eye surgeons" to Lebanon to treat the wounded. The blasts came just hours after Israel announced it was broadening the aims of the war sparked by Hamas's October 7 attacks to include its fight against the group's ally Hezbollah along the country's border with Lebanon.
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