Iran weighs sending aid to fight Israel in Lebanon

By With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Anne Shutt

June 9, 1982

New York

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati said Tuesday an Iranian delegation has been sent to Syria to discuss the dispatch of ''necesssary assistance to Lebanese, Syrian, and Palestinian combatants'' fighting Israel.

He said Iran does not differentiate the ''Israeli aggression against Lebanon from (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein's aggression against Iran.''