In a rare and controversial visit to south Lebanon where he received a hero's welcome, Iran's president praised the people's resistance to Israel.

Speaking just a few hundred meters from Israel's border, Ahmedinejad told Hezbollah, the Lebanese group that fought two wars with Israel, that "the people of Iran will support you forever."

But some Lebanese officials considered Ahmedinejad's visit a sign that Iran is interfering in the country's affairs to pursue its own agenda.

Zeina Khodr reports from south Lebanon.

[October 15, 2010]