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Baker Hughes says it expects the impact of the Iran conflict on some projects and supply chains to be offset by stronger performance in other regions.

Iran’s supreme leader Mujtaba said Tehran’s support for the resistance front is a strategic mission and, citing policy set by the late supreme leader Khamenei, Tehran will defend Lebanon, preserve its territorial integrity and seek the complete, unconditional cessation of Israel’s aggression — which he said remains the primary condition for ending the war — in a reply to HEZBOLLAH leader Naim Qassem.