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Khamenei ties US-Iran peace deal to Israel ending attacks on Lebanon

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Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has said that peace between Tehran and Washington is contingent on Israel stopping its attacks on Lebanon. Khamenei made the statement in a post on X on Sunday. Iran 'has designated the preservation of Lebanon's territorial integrity, and the absolute, unconditional termination of the Zionist regime's aggression as the primary condition for any agreement to ending the imposed war against the aggressive US', he wrote.

Khamenei also voiced his support for the Lebanese group Hezbollah, its former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and the people of southern Lebanon. 'The Islamic Republic of Iran considers the defense of these oppressed yet powerful mujahideen [of Hezbollah] to be its strategic mandate,' Khamenei said.

Khamenei's intervention comes amid reports of a halt to attacks and renewed diplomacy between Iran and the United States. Tehran has insisted that Israel must end its strikes on Lebanon as a condition for Iran ending the war with the US, enshrining that demand in the first clause of the memorandum of understanding it signed with Washington in June.