🇮🇷🇱🇧🇱🇧 - An Iranian Mahan Air commercial flight from Tehran to Beirut was delayed upon arrival and searched at Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport, after Lebanon reportedly received intelligence of an Iranian plan to smuggle cash into the country to fund Hezbollah.
According to reports in Lebanon, members of an Iranian diplomatic delegation aboard the plane tried to prevent it from being searched, citing diplomatic immunity, but after security forces were called in, the plane was eventually scanned. The Lebanese authorities ultimately confiscated the contents of the bag.
The Iranian Embassy sent a 'clarification note' to the Lebanese Foreign Ministry, explaining that the two diplomatic suitcases in question contained 'documents and cash for operational expenses of the embassy'.