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Has the situation come to a stage where Irans support is no longer necessary? Has the militancy
been funded for too long?
Now, after nearly two decades, this ad hoc export of Iranian revolutionary
ideology may have succeeded too well. Whereas today the bulk of the Iranian
population has at least some doubts about their government, Hezbollah
maintains a stronger commitment to the symbolic legacy of the Iranian
Revolution than Iranians, according to Georgetown University professor
Daniel Byman. In a 2003 Foreign Affairs article, Byman pointed out that,
[Iran] lacks the means to force a significant change in the [Hezbollah]
movement and its goals. It has no real presence on the ground in Lebanon
and a call to disarm or cease resistance would likely cause Hezbollahs
leadership, or at least its most militant elements, simply to sever ties with
Tehrans leadership.
In short, Hezbollah has now taken on a life of its own. Even if all Iranian
financial and logistic support were cut off, Hezbollah would not only
continue, it would thrive.
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But people don't fully appreciate Hezbollah's ideological commitment to the concept of
"velayat-e faqih," or guardianship of the jurists, which holds that a Shiite Islamic cleric
should also serve as supreme head of government. For Hezbollah, this means the Iranian
leadership is also their leader--not for every foot soldier, but for Hezbollah's senior
leaders absolutely.
So what we see now is that Hezbollah is going to do things today that are in Iran's
interest even if they expressly run counter to the interests of Lebanon and Hezbollah's
own interest there. At the end of the day, the group's commitment to Iran trumps its
identity as a Lebanese political movement. Part of that has to do with the assassination
of Imad Mughniyeh in 2008, who led Hezbollah's military wing.
Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah acknowledged Tuesday for the first
time that his militant movement received financial and material support from Iran, but denied
it took instructions from the Islamic Republic
In the 1960s, Musa al Sadr, an Iranian born Shia cleric, sought to develop religious
autonomy and a political platform for the Shias (Mackey 2008). Subsequently, the
outbreak of the civil war in 1975 led to the establishment of the Shia militia AMAL (Owen
2004).
Following the Iranian revolution (1979) and Israels occupation of South Lebanon,
Islamist Shia clerics became increasingly influential in AMAL circles (Mackey 2008). This
influence would eventually lead to the foundation of Hezbollah. Although officially
founded in 1982, Hezbollah only became properly organised by the mid-1980s (Norton
2007).
Hezbollahs primary aim is the establishment of Islamic rule in Lebanon (Saab 2008), as
soon as the majority of the Lebanese citizens support this idea (Hamzeh 2004). , and
annihilation of Israel
Furthermore, Hezbollahs control over Beiruts international airport makes it very likely
that Iranian planes have brought weapons to Lebanon (Saab 2008). Moreover, in
November 2009, close to Cyprus, Israel seized a ship, travelling from Iran to Syria and
carrying weapons for Hezbollah (Norell 2009). Iran also supports Hezbollah militarily
through a small presence of its Revolutionary Guards in Lebanon (Stoessinger 2008).
Hezbollah has also received Iranian-supplied weaponry, including 11,500 missiles already in
place in southern Lebanon. 3,000 Hezbollah militants have undergone training inIran, which
included guerrilla warfare, firing missiles and rocket artillery, operating unmanned drones, marine
warfare, and conventional war operations.[27]
Mahmoud Ali Suleiman, the Hezbollah operative captured in August 2006 by the IDF for his role
in the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on July 12, admitted during his
interrogation that he received weapons-training and religious instruction in Iran. He told his
interrogators that he rode in a civilian car to Damascus, from where he flew to Iran. Other than
the Russian-made Katyusha, Hezbollah's reported artillery cache is entirely Iranian-made.[citation
needed]
On August 4, 2006, Jane's Defense Weekly, a defense industry magazine, reported that
Hezbollah asked Iran for "a constant supply of weapons to support its operations against Israel"
in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. The report cited Western diplomatic sources as saying that
Iranian authorities promised Hezbollah a steady supply of weapons "for the next stage of the
confrontation".[28]
http://theglobalobservatory.org/2015/03/hezbollah-syria-lebanon-israel/