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U.N. envoy Danny Danon tells Secretary-General to retract comparison of Israel to Hezbollah, accuses Iran of extorting ships
Summary
At a U.N. press briefing, Israel's ambassador Danny Danon called remarks by U.N. Secretary-General Guterres comparing Israel and Hezbollah "shameful" and demanded a retraction; Danon also accused Iran of harassing ships in the Strait of Hormuz and cited reports of multi-million-dollar payments for passage.
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, used a U.N. press briefing to sharply rebuke U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres and to accuse Iran of using maritime harassment to extract payments from commercial shipping.
Danon addressed the General Assembly by name-checking the U.N. Secretary-General's earlier comment that "Israel and Hezbollah have ' helped each other to destabilize Lebanon," calling that claim "simply false" and a "complete distortion of reality." He said the Secretary-General's comparison between "a sovereign state and a terrorist organization" was…
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