Iran’s Four-Decade Strategy to Envelope Israel in Terror
Tehran’s hand in the first and second intifadas.
June 2, 2023
Iran’s Four-Decade Strategy to Envelope Israel in Terror
Tehran’s hand in the first and second intifadas.
Yesterday, the head of the Shin Bet—Israel’s internal security service—was in Washington meeting with officials from the State Department, CIA, and the White House itself. Among the topics no doubt discussed are rising tensions with Iran and the possibility that the latter, in order to defend its nuclear program, will instruct its network of proxies in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and even Iraq and Yemen to attack the Jewish state. Oved Lobel explores the history of this network, which, he argues, predates Iran’s Islamic Revolution—when Shiite radicals in Lebanon coordinated with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s movement in Iran:
June 2, 2023
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