The $150 billion “signing bonus” in unfrozen funds that Iran would receive in a nuclear deal will strengthen the hold that its proxy terrorist group Hezbollah has over Lebanon, Lebanese politician Ahmad el-Assaad wrote Monday in an op-ed (Google link) for The Wall Street Journal. El-Assaad noted that Iran is stretched thin due to its support of the...

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The United States has cut funding to a program “intended [to] foster an independent moderate Shiite voice” in Lebanon, leading critics to fault the move as an effort to appease Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Tuesday. The Hayya Bina program in question was funded through the International Republican Institute,...

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A Hezbollah-allied newspaper, As-Safir, recently published a series reports on the massive infrastructure, including a network of tunnels, that the Iranian-backed terrorist organization has been building on Lebanon’s border with Israel, The Times of Israel reported Saturday. According to the Times, Hezbollah is “painting a picture of a military force highly prepared for...

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Hezbollah has embedded its significant terrorist infrastructure in southern Lebanese villages, risking the lives of thousands of civilians in the event of another war against Israel, according to a senior Israeli military official quoted in The New York Times Wednesday. Viewed from the air, Muhaybib looks like a typical southern...

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Protests against Iranian authorities that began in the Kurdish-majority city of Mahabad have spread to other Kurdish areas, Lebanon’s NOW Media reported today. ARA News, a Syrian outlet close to the country’s Kurds, reported that at least six people have been killed in the ongoing demonstrations, while hundreds of others have...

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The terrorist organization Hezbollah has begun recruiting children as young as eight to join the Mahdi Scouts, which prepares boys to become armed jihadists when they grow up. The scouts number some 50,000 members ranging in age from 8 to 18 and has branches in areas such as Beirut and south Lebanon, according to the Lebanese newspaper...

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Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said that the Arab world would have to be “aggressive” as it counters Iran in “Yemen and beyond,” Al Arabiya reported Monday. In his comments to journalists in Washington, Hariri sketched out an ambitious plan to target Syria, which he called “the joint” of Iran’s influence in...

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Lebanese officials condemned Hezbollah’s use of child soldiers in Syrian civil war after the Lebanon-based terrorist organization announced the death of a 15-year-old boy “during his observing the obligation of jihad.” Announcements of this kind published by the Iran-sponsored militia usually relate to the organization’s fighters killed while fighting in Syria, and therefore it is believed (Arabic...

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IHS Jane’s, the leading publisher of defense information, has located a drone base operated by Hezbollah in northern Lebanon, Armin Rosen of Business Insider reported today. The airstrip includes a 2200-foot unpaved runway, several outbuildings, and an antenna that “could potentially be used to extend the range of a UAV...

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In Congressional testimony two weeks ago, retired Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn stated that the United States is “at war with violent and extreme Islamists (both Sunni and Shia) and we must accept and face this.” It is time to make a choice—push, before we are pushed. But the United...

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