Bipartisan legislation targeting Hezbollah and its enablers continued this week to wind its way through the Senate, with Al Monitor describing the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2014 – introduced by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) – as part of an effort by U.S. lawmakers to...

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As Iran’s economic situation is in temporary downturn and the country continues propping up the Assad regime in Syria, Tehran’s terrorist proxy Hezbollah is increasingly feeling the pinch, according to a report in the May 15 edition of The Daily Star Lebanon. The sources also pointed to the huge financial impact...

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Lebanon’s NOW Media on Sunday conveyed statements by a top figure from the anti-Hezbollah March 14 bloc, Assem Araji, worrying that political maneuvering by Hezbollah would lock in a political vacuum at that country’s presidential level over the medium term, after the Iran-backed group and its allies last week managed to...

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A Hezbollah-linked member of Lebanon’s parliament took to Voice of Lebanon radio to declare that lawmakers from his Loyalty to the Resistance bloc would exercise what he described as their “constitutional right not to enter parliament,” setting up a deadlock in what will be that body’s third attempt to elect...

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When Pope Francis arrives in Jerusalem at the end of May, among those to greet him will be the Lebanese-based Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi, unless Lebanese politicians prevent his trip to an “enemy state.” In responding to threats and criticism, al-Rahi said: “I am the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and...

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Lebanon’s NOW media outlet on Friday published a series of interviews and updates from the besieged Lebanese town of Tfail, which has been targeted by what NOW described as a “campaign of aerial bombardment against… civilians” by Hezbollah-backed forces loyal to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime: “For the past two nights,...

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Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday conveyed angry remarks from Iranian officials in reaction to last week’s publication of the State Department’s annual country-by-country terrorism roundup: “Accusing Iran of supporting terrorism is politicized and based on double standards,” ministry spokesperson Marzieh Afkham said in a statement reported by the official IRNA...

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Lebanese lawmakers are theoretically meant to elect a new president with a second round of voting on April 30, but the two key blocs led by Hezbollah and the pro-Western MP Saad Hariri cannot agree on a consensus candidate. Under Lebanon’s complex, confessional-based political system, in which top political posts are...

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The Washington Examiner on Friday outlined a scenario under which the next war in the Middle East may break out as a result of what the outlet described as competing “Israeli and Lebanese claims over a potentially lucrative plot of [underwater] territory,” with the recently formed Lebanese government set to...

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The Lebanese government on Tuesday reported progress in providing relief to residents of the besieged border town of Tfail, a remote Lebanese outpost functionally accessible only via Syrian roads, has been subject to isolation and bombardment by Hezbollah-backed forces fighting on behalf of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime. The Iran-directed terror...

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