Lebanese minister, diplomats visit Beirut airport after claims of storing weapons

A group of Lebanese senior officials, alongside more than a dozen foreign diplomats, visited the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut on Monday, after a major British newspaper published an article alleging that Iranian weapons were being stored there.

Journalists also joined the tour of the airport, where Lebanese officials defended the airport's procedures and said that the reports of weapons storage were false.

"The airport adheres to international standards," said Ali Hamieh, the transport minister who led the visit.

On Sunday, the British newspaper The Telegraph reported that the Lebanese group Hezbollah was storing weapons at the Beirut airport, adding that there was an arrival of "unusually big boxes" that came from Iran.

The newspaper cited airport whistleblowers.

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