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Iran and the United States have exchanged messages throughout Israel’s four-month-old war on Gaza, including about Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, the Iranian foreign minister said on Saturday. “During this war and in the recent weeks, there was an exchange of messages between Iran and America,” Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said through a translator at a press conference capping a day-long visit to Beirut. He said the United States had asked Tehran to request Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, “not to get widely, fully involved in this war against” Israel. Hezbollah has exchanged near-daily fire …