Ahmedinejad cheers south Lebanese

In a rare and controversial visit to south Lebanon where he received a hero’s welcome, Iran’s president praised the people’s resistance to Israel.

Speaking before crowds just a few hundred meters from Israel’s border, Ahmedinejad told Hezbollah – the Lebanese group that fought two wars with Israel – that “the people of Iran will support you forever.”

But some Lebanese officials considered Ahmedinejad’s visit to the Hezbollah stronghold as a provocation to Israel and sign that Iran is interfering in the country’s affairs to pursue its own agenda.

Zeina Khodr reports from south Lebanon.