Former Iranian ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani described the Israeli 2024 pager attacks in Lebanon as a “pure war crime,” saying the operation had been planned well before the outbreak of the Gaza war.

Amani made the remarks at a conference entitled “Lebanon: Two Years After the Martyrdom of Nasrallah and the Outlook for Developments,” attended by experts on Palestine and regional affairs.

“The pager operation was a pure war crime,” Amani said, adding that the devices used in the attacks had entered Lebanon before the Palestinian resistance launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on Oct. 7, 2023.

He said this showed that the Israeli regime had prepared the operation in advance rather than devising it in response to the Oct. 7 operation.

Amani, who was serving as Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon at the time of the pager attacks, was himself injured when a pager exploded during the operation.

 

 

Mojtaba Darabi - H.Hakimzadeh