(AP) Nasser Karimi - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with Lebanon's visiting Lebanese Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn on Sunday, telling him that Beirut and Tehran should work toward unity to confront the West and Israel. Ghosn is a member of the Christian political party Marada, which is allied with Tehran's main partner in Lebanon, the Shiite Hizbullah movement. Iran's defense minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi said, "Strengthening the Lebanese army is among the strategic policies of Iran." In return Ghosn said, "Right now there is complete coordination between the army and the resistance," a term often used by Hizbullah to refer to itself. Iran also recently hosted leaders from the Palestinian militant movement Hamas.
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