NTI - Global Security Newswire, 25 Aug 2010.

A Lebanese news Web site asserted Saturday that Iran next month is expected to offer to supply Lebanon with antimissile technology, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

Tehran appears likely to make its missile defense proposal when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits Beirut in early September following the end of Muslim observance of Ramadan. The Iranian government would also propose providing additional armaments during the president's trip, Now Lebanon reported, relying on an unidentified Lebanese diplomatic insider.

Iran's proposal would come after lawmakers in Washington moved to halt U.S. military assistance to Lebanon amid worries about the sway the militant group Hezbollah has over the Lebanese Armed Forces.

Jerusalem has requested the United States and France halt their support to the Lebanese military after it engaged in a brief border fight with Israeli forces earlier this month, Haaretz reported.

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