Iran’s Axis of Resistance and Threat to Israel: Hezbollah, Houthis, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Iran maintains its influence in the region through various groups, which Tehran calls the components of its “axis of resistance” – it includes Hezbollah, which lives in Israel’s southern neighbor in Lebanon, the successful Houthi rebel group in the Yemeni civil war, and the Palestinian terrorist group “Palestinian Islamic Jihad”. and other armed groups in Syria and Iraq. All these groups loyal to Iran have already openly threatened or even attacked Israel after October 7, demonstrating that they are capable of raising the conflict to the next, international level.

Since the 1979 Iranian revolution, the Iranian government has taken a clearly belligerent stance against Israel, and has also embedded it in its political ideology. The revolutionary leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, considered Israel an imperialist project of the Western countries, which threatens the independence not only of the Palestinians, but also of other Muslim nations. Israel has also served

2023-11-16 22:01:00
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