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November 9, 2020

In 2006, Iran Started the Lebanon War to Distract from Its Nuclear Program

Hizballah did its masters' bidding.

On July 12, 2006 Hizballah operatives crossed into Israel and kidnapped and then killed two soldiers, sparking a 34-day war. Contrary to the claims of the Lebanon-backed terrorist group’s own leaders, Raphael Ofek and Pesach Malovany painstakingly lay out the case that Hizballah deliberately sought to provoke a serious conflict with the Jewish state at the behest of its masters in Tehran. The Islamic Republic, which sent soldiers and advisers from its Revolutionary Guard Corps to supervise and assist in the fighting, was at the time primarily concerned by growing scrutiny from Europe and the U.S. regarding its nuclear program:

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