How Iran Outsourced Regional War to the Party of God
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.3 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Party of God, Hezbollah, is reaching out far beyond its Lebanese roots as they work with Iran to spread their joint vision of holy war. Working with money and equipment from Iran, the Shi’ite militia now operates in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. The party dedicated to the destruction of the Israel is doing a lot of work in countries east of its target.
Don’t get them wrong, Hezbollah still hates Israel and wants to destroy it, but it’s lending its expertise—and soldiers—to faraway battles. This week on War College, New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard takes us through what’s changed for the Shi’ite militia group and why they’re fighting so far from home and what Iran gets by supporting it.
Read Hubbard’s article on Hezbollah here.
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| 0:09.0 | Just click the link in the show description to support now. If Iran wants to strike Israel, it has to fly its jets over a certain number of countries |
| 0:21.0 | to get there. |
| 0:22.0 | Many of those countries probably wouldn't be very happy about it. But instead they basically |
| 0:25.3 | helped create a military force smack on the border that can attack Israel whenever there are new hostilities. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines. |
| 0:46.2 | Here are your hosts, Matthew Gault. |
| 1:05.0 | Ben Hubbard from the New York Times is here to talk with us today about the Party of God. |
| 1:10.0 | Hezbollah, they've been a force in the Middle East for decades, but their role is changing. |
| 1:15.0 | The group's mission is no longer solely focused on destroying Israel. |
| 1:19.0 | Instead, they're working with and for Iran becoming a regional force. |
| 1:24.0 | Thanks for joining us, Ben. |
| 1:25.8 | Thank you. |
| 1:26.9 | Do you mind starting with the basics? |
| 1:29.5 | You know, what is Hezbollah? |
| 1:30.9 | What in what's their goal? |
| 1:32.3 | Well, Hezbollah, I mean, I think their goals have changed over time. |
| 1:34.0 | Hezbollah has started out as a Lebanese militant group in the 80s, |
| 1:38.0 | founded sort of with Iranian guidance during the Lebanese Civil War, |
| 1:42.0 | but it was, you know, when you had a very messy civil war going on among many of the different fighting groups you had different sort of disparate Shiite religious militias that were involved in war and Iran got involved and gave them some sort of advice |
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