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What's likely going to happen here is that Iran will have to do something because the red line was crossed
Dr Andreas Krieg, Assistant Professor of Defence Studies at King's College London, told MailOnline The deep entanglement between Lebanon and Hezbollah is now being tested and interrogated by those who have long opposed Hezbollah
The fate of this region will be determined by the forces of resistance, with Hezbollah at the forefront'
He said in a statement ... state media Hezbollah was Iran's most strategically significant asset and main deterrent against Israel
Dr Burcu Ozcelik, Senior Research Fellow for Middle East Security at the Royal United Services Institute defence and security think tank (RUSI), added Any successful upgrade of Houthi capabilities would also likely draw a kinetic Israeli response.
Edmund Fitton-Brown, Senior Advisor to the Counter Extremism Project and former Ambassador of the UK to Yemen, told MailOnline The leadership of Hezbollah pledges... to continue its jihad in confronting the enemy, supporting Gaza and Palestine, and defending Lebanon and its steadfast and honorable people.
According to the information we have, Hassan Nasrallah, secretary general of Hezbollah, would indeed have died,
the French foreign ministry said in a statement today We have been looking for solutions, looking for a change in reality that will bring our civilians home,
referring to the approximately 60,000 Israelis who have been evacuated from their homes along the Lebanese border for almost a year All regional resistance forces are to stand by and support Hezbollah,
This isn’t a threat that has gone away,
We hope this will change Hezbollah’s actions,
This doesn’t mean that Hezbollah is destroyed, because Hezbollah is made up tens of thousands of people,
However, this system led to these groups repeatedly trying to assert their own interests at the expense of the other groups,
But of course the army is also weakened by the national and economic crisis in Lebanon,
If there isn't a strong state that can take action against the centrifugal forces in its own country and institutions, then an oligarchic system can easily emerge in which everyone serves themselves,
The birth defect was that it included large areas of non-Maronite populations from the outset,
This would drag Lebanon into a civil war,
Lebanon was founded in the early 20th century as a state of Christian Maronites in alliance with the French as a protecting power,
says Markus Schneider, who heads the Friedrich-Ebert foundation's regional project for peace and security in the Middle East in the Lebanese capital Beirut Hezbollah has basically taken Lebanese politics hostage,
says Middle East expert Kelly Petillo of the European Council on Foreign Relations With public registration, officials will certainly grant permission for the deployment of forces to Lebanon and the Golan heights,
Ayatollah Mohammad Hassan Akhtari, Iran's deputy for international affairs, said