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IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS OFFICIAL START OF MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WILL BE ON FRIDAY

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Iran & China signed a 25-year, $400B cooperation pact in 2021

The 2021 Iran-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership covered oil, trade, and military ties. Critics called it Iran's biggest diplomatic shift since the 1979 revolution, reducing reliance on Western engagement.

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Nabatieh was also devastated in 2006 — and rebuilt within years.

After the 34-day 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, over 1 million Lebanese were displaced. Nabatieh and the south were heavily bombed, yet residents returned and rebuilt — a pattern now repeating as families come home again to ruins.

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