by Amir Taheri | May 25, 2016 | Middle East
“We have to take a hard look at our role in the war in Syria,” says General Mohsen Kazemaini who commands the Islamic Revolutionary Guard’s forces in Tehran. “We have entered the war to keep our own enemies away from our borders.” What is significant in Gen....
by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Mar 1, 2016 | Opinion
To understand why Hezbollah has expanded outside its borders in Lebanon into Syria and Yemen, we must look at it as a limited company that provides services to its owner; the regime in Iran. Politicians have persistently described the group as the “Iranian proxy”. The...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 29, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East
The former Secretary General of Hezbollah Sheikh Subhi Al-Tufayli warned of a scheme to drag Lebanon into a civil war and said that “We will see bitter days the like of which Lebanon has not seen before and Hezbollah will not be able to withstand this ordeal”. He...