The speaker of Iran's parliament has visited Lebanon and Syria in a mark of solidarity with the two countries and Lebanon's Hizb Allah resistance group. Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel on Saturday visited the graves of more than 100 people killed by Israeli artillery shells as he finished a trip to reaffirm Iranian support for Lebanon and the Hizb Allah. Later on Saturday, Haddad Adel went to Damascus where he said he would discuss with Syrian officials "ways of confronting pressure against Iran and Syria", the official Syrian Arab News Agency reported. On the first leg of his tour, accompanied by Iranian legislators, Haddad Adel went to Qana, 11 km north of the Israeli border, where a bombardment killed Lebanese men, women and children taking refuge in a UN base during an Israeli offensive against Hizb Allah rocket attacks in 1996. A UN report found the shelling was "unlikely" to have been an accident, as Israel claimed. Addressing a crowd of Hizb Allah supporters in Qana, Haddad Adel told them in Arabic: "You are not alone because the Iranian nation with its 70 million people is with you." Haddad Adel called for unity against what he described as "the ambitions of America and Israel".