Lebanese leader asks Iran to help secure a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel

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Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has appeared to encourage Tehran to convince Hezbollah, which it supports, to agree to a deal that could require the militant group to withdraw from the Israel-Lebanon border.

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00:00Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mekati has appealed to Iran for help to broker a

00:07ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel.

00:10Iran is Hezbollah's main backer and is believed to have significant sway over the group.

00:15Mekati told a senior adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that Beirut wants to see an end

00:20to the war.

00:21A Lebanese official confirmed that Beirut had received a draft proposal from the American

00:26ambassador based on UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the last Israel-Hezbollah

00:32war in 2006.

00:35Hezbollah officials are said to be studying it.

00:39Hezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel the day after Hamas' surprise attack

00:43on Israel on 7 October last year.

00:46Israel escalated its strikes in Lebanon in late September, vowing to cripple Hezbollah

00:51and end its barrages on Israel, and launched a ground operation into the country.

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