In October , the U. In June , for example, the U. Hezbollah procurement efforts in partnership with Iran significantly expanded in the context of the Syrian civil war. In , Yemeni security forces interdicted the Iranian vessel Jihan 1 off the coast of Yemen and arrested eight Yemenis and two Lebanese Hezbollah operatives.
Believed to be heading for Houthi territory, the ship carried several tons of Iranian weapons and explosives. Similarly, Bahraini authorities disrupted two Hezbollah attempts to smuggle explosives into the country from Iran in August But Hezbollah has also engaged in other, still more covert regional exploits in close partnership with Iran, including intelligence collection and cyber and disinformation operations across the region.
Consider, for example, the case of Iraq-based Hezbollah operative Muhammad Farhat. According to the U. Mohammad Ali Allahdadi. According to her plea, Thompson admitted accessing and sharing dozens of intelligence files, including names of human assets, to provide to her Hezbollah contact.
The extent of his personal leadership of these proxies became clear as U. IRGC officials were familiar with Mughniyeh since his teen years, and decision-makers in Iran were known to consult with him when determining regional policy. Hezbollah not only lacked the resources and capability to carry out such operations abroad, it no longer had Mughniyeh to guide its operations. Soleimani built a devoted following among Iranian proxy groups, including both their leaders and foot soldiers.
A hands-on commander, Soleimani established personal bonds with key militia commanders and mediated disputes over funding or prestige — until he was killed, alongside one of his key deputies, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, in January In August , the U. In this capacity, he facilitates the actions of groups operating outside the control of the Government of Iraq that have violently suppressed protests, attacked foreign diplomatic missions, and engaged in wide-spread organized criminal activity.
Muhammad Hussein-Zada Hejazi. In , when Iran began shipping precision-guided missiles to Hezbollah through Syria, Hejazi oversaw the program. Irlu was close to Soleimani, but he also provided training to Hezbollah operatives in Iran.
In , he instructed a senior Hezbollah official to coordinate anti-aircraft rocket training for JAM Special Groups. Today, we have dozens of cohesive forces that are ready to carry out military operations and are acting like Hezbollah: in Syria, in Iraq, in Yemen, in Afghanistan, and even in Pakistan.
Today, with its extensive militant commitments across the region, Hezbollah can no longer maintain that fiction. We are wherever the oppressed need us. Press, The opinions expressed in this paper are his own.
Featured Program view Economics and Energy Program. Program view Cyber Program. Featured Summer Full Page view Annual Awards Gala. Full Page view Internships. Summary As a Lebanese actor ideologically tied to Iran, Hezbollah has multiple allegiances and objectives that do not always align symmetrically. Contents I. Peterson, et al. CA , March 17, , p. CA , March 17, , CA , March 17, , Memorandum Opinion, pp. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Putin agreed during a meeting in Sochi on Friday that the two nations would continue to implement the so-called deconfliction mechanism that works to prevent Israeli and Russian forces from clashing in Syria, a senior Israeli official said.
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But as the journalism we do is costly, we invite readers for whom The Times of Israel has become important to help support our work by joining The Times of Israel Community. It is also responsible for infamous attacks against American military installations in Lebanon in the early s. Hezbollah was declared a terrorist entity by the United States in Syria and Iran support Hezbollah with money and weapons and have long used Hezbollah as their proxy to directly challenge and battle Israel.
Hezbollah was founded with the help of Iranian Revolutionary Guards who traveled to the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon in to fight Israel following the Israeli incursion into south Lebanon.
This is not only limited to the IDF presence in Lebanon. Rather, the complete destruction of the State of Israel and the establishment of Islamic rule over Jerusalem is an expressed goal.
In recent years, Hezbollah has attempted to reinvent itself as a political party. In the early and mids Hezbollah was responsible for numerous attacks against U. Marines barracks in Beirut, which killed servicemen. Hezbollah is responsible for scores of attacks against Israeli forces in south Lebanon and civilians in northern Israel. On July 12, , Hezbollah terrorists attacked Israel in a cross-border raid, killing eight Israeli soldiers and kidnapping two others — Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev.
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