Location: The Heritage Foundation's Allison Auditorium
While the
world has become too busy holding its breath over Iran's threat of
developing and hiding nuclear weapons, Iran has been stealthily
spreading its terrorist influence to other Middle Eastern
countries. In 1982, Iran created Hezbollah - the Party of God - to
export its revolution, mobilize Lebanese Shiites, and develop
terrorist attacks on Israel and its supporter, the United States.
Since then, Iran has been providing the bulk of Hezbollah's foreign
support - mainly arms, training, and financing - while Syria
provided the rest. Syria houses this militant wing of Palestinian
Hamas and allows Iran to use Syrian airfields to transport weapons,
ammunition and equipment to its Lebanon-based allies. Before
blaming Israel for the current round of violence, international
leaders must pressure, condemn and sanction those terrorist states
against whose endeavors they have failed to act. Join us as our
panelists discuss the current Middle East crisis and the actors
behind Hezbollah.
More About the Speakers
Patrick Clawson
Deputy Director, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Aaron Mannes
Author, Profiles in Terror
Daniel Pipes
Director, Middle East Forum
Hosted By
Ariel Cohen, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Policy, The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies
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