(16 Oct 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Amman, Jordan – 16 October 2024
1. Wide of Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi and Jordan’s foreign minister Ayman Safadi arriving, posing for cameras and shaking hands
2. Various of Araghchi signing documents
3. Araghchi leaving room
4. Wide of meeting between Araghchi and Safadi
5. Mid of Araghchi listening
6. Mid of Safadi talking
7. Mid of Araghchi listening
8. Wide of Araghchi and Safadi
9. Mid of Araghchi listening
10. Mid of Safadi listening
11. Pan left to Araghchi
12. Wide of meeting
STORYLINE:
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met on Wednesday with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi in Amman.
The two ministers are expected to discuss the Iranian-Israeli escalation and the war in Gaza and Lebanon.
In a clear message to Iran and Israel, Jordanian officials said in different occasions that Jordan would not be a battlefield for anyone and would not allow anyone to violate its airspace and sovereignty.
Iranian missiles were seen in Jordanian airspace twice during Iran’s bombing of several sites in Israel in April and November.
Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel on Oct. 8 in solidarity with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, following the surprise Hamas attack on southern Israel that triggered the war in Gaza.
A year of low-level fighting along the Israel-Lebanon border escalated into all-out war last month, and has displaced some 1.2 million people in Lebanon.
Some 2,300 people have been killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon since last October, more than three-quarters of them in the past month, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.
Hezbollah’s rocket attacks, which have extended their range and grown more intense over the past month, have driven around 60,000 Israelis from their homes in the north.
The attacks have killed nearly 60 people in Israel, around half of them soldiers.
Hezbollah has said it will keep up its attacks until there is a cease-fire in Gaza, but that appears increasingly remote after months of negotiations brokered by the United States, Egypt and Qatar sputtered to a halt.
Israel invaded Lebanon earlier this month after airstrikes killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and most of his senior commanders, and has been carrying out ground operations along the border.
It has vowed to continue its offensive until its citizens can safely return to communities near the border.
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