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2021-07-23 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

WhiteHouse: Iran Undermines Lebanese Sovereignty

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Posted by Fred 2021-07-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
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#1 No Shi'ite, Sherlock.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-07-23 09:17|| 2021-07-23 09:17|| Front Page Top

#2 The Hezbollah was an Iranian creation beholding to the Ayatollah Khomeini and spread a revolutionary message to Shiite populations outside of Iran. It was administered by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. The "Pasdaran" had attempted to infiltrate Afghan refugee camps but received little support from the Sunni refugee population. Frustrated, they turned to Lebanon. The Pasdaran emerged in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon in June 1982 where its Hamza and Ansar divisions were seen working with the Syrian military in building an "army" peopled by indigenous Lebanese Shiite zealots. That project was directed from Iran by Hojatolislam Hashemi Rafsanjani. In the Bekaa amidst fellow Shiites, Rafsanjani exported an Islamist revolution beyond the borders of Iran. Within a few months there emerged an anomalous political phenomenon -- an Iranian enclave within a Syrian satrapy within the Lebanese nation. And once entrenched, the Lebanese Hezbollah would not be forced out.
From 1982 onward Hezbollah activity was governed by a 12-man consultative council operating from the Bekaa Valley. It took control of the local Islamic Jihad (al-Jihad al-Islami) movement and used kidnapping to create a feared reputation and soon spread its influence and its message of hatred for the West and Lebanon's Christian population. Imad Mughniyah, then the second-ranking figure in Hezbollah's security service, helped organize the 1983 bomb attack on the US Marine barracks in Beirut resulting in the death of 251 Americans. The operation introduced the world to the suicide bomber, and Hezbollah would be responsible for the death of over 1,000 people (including 62 French paratroopers) in a series of attacks carried out in the nineteen eighties. By 1986 there were hundreds of Iranian advisors active in Lebanon, and Hezbollah itself was thought to command 12,000 mujahideen in Lebanon. In South Beirut the Hizbullah leader Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah preached eloquent and ardent sermons that attracted thousands to the Imam al Rida mosque. For Sheikh Fadlallah, "Establishing an Islamic republic in Lebanon," was not enough; like other Islamists of his generation, he was "contemplating Islamizing the world." Evolving from a fighting unit, the Hezbollah spread a message that found a receptive audience among the 1.5 million Lebanese Shiites, especially after funds provided by Iran were used to create an infrastructure of social services led by Abbas al-Mussawi, Subhi al-Tufayli, and a number of Shiite clergy educated in Iran.
By 1990 the Hezbollah controlled most of the Bekaa Valley and heavily Shiite-populated southern Lebanon. Thirty years later it controls most of Lebanon and the nation has been destroyed.

Posted by Gerthudion Whomoper3485 2021-07-23 09:47|| 2021-07-23 09:47|| Front Page Top

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