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I'm John Batch with my colleagues Bill Rosho and David Deid of the Foundation for

Defense of Democracy. Fog of War, but Hezbollah decapped some months ago, a sufferer of the disorder,

plain fear in Tehran.

David, do these two capitals now connect?

What goes on Iran also goes on in Beirut,

and is Beirut as disenfranchised as the Tehran government appears to be weak?

Does it reflect the weakness of Tehran? Well, I think, look, Lebanon, as much as

Hezbollah is an outgrowth of Iranian ideology, it is also a symptom, not the cause, a symptom of the

ails of Lebanon itself, right? Hezbollah could not have emerged in a country that had a cohesive national identity that

have functioning strong state, uh, one where the average Lebanese prioritized their national

identity over their sectarian or subsectarian feudal allegiances.

Um, so we one can't blame Hezbollah entirely. I mean, Iran wants to, you know,

obviously wants to export the revolution, and I use that term broadly, as much as it can,

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