Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei condemns the Israeli regime for threatening to attack an Iranian passenger plane carrying Lebanese citizens.

The incident marks the latest in a series at the Beirut airport, which has been a key point of tension between Iran and people within Lebanon’s government who are cautiously distancing themselves from Iran’s influence.

Lebanon blocked an Iranian airliner from flying into Beirut Thursday after Israel accused Iran a day earlier of using civilian flights to deliver cash to Lebanese terror group Hezbollah. The chief executive of Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport,

Airport clashes with security forces after Iranian plane prevented from landing at Beirut.