TEHRAN -- The foreign minister’s assistant and director general of the Foreign Ministry’s West Asia and North Africa department reaffirmed Iran’s support for the Lebanese people amid the fuel crisis that has gripped the Arab country.“As one of the major producers and exporters of energy in the region, the Islamic Republic of Iran stands with the people of Lebanon to help them,” Muhammad Sadegh Fazli tweeted. “Tehran is prepared to host the Lebanese for talks about supplying the fuel needed by the people of that country. We’ll never abandon our friends in difficult days.”