An Iranian airliner was refused permission to land at the Beirut airport on Saturday and returned to Iran.
No Iranian aircraft is authorized to land at Beirut International Airport © Mena Today
An Iranian airliner was refused permission to land at the Beirut airport on Saturday and returned to Iran.
Earlier, Turkish media reported that the IDF breeched the Beirut Airport control tower's communications and threatened Iranian civilian aircraft to stay away.
By Antoine Khoury
Pope Leo will meet with leaders from Lebanon's diverse religious sects on Monday, where he is expected to urge them not to flee the country despite years of conflict, political paralysis and economic crisis that have prompted waves of migration.
Iran seized on Sunday an Eswatini-flagged vessel carrying 350,000 litres of smuggled fuel, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
Pope Leo arrived in Lebanon on Sunday, where he is expected to appeal for peace in a country that is a continued target of Israeli air strikes, on the second and final leg of his first overseas trip as leader of the Catholic Church.
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