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Across Israel’s northern border, in Lebanon, the Iranians have forged the Shiite Hezbollah movement into what is essentially a surrogate army, obeying Tehran’s orders.
And it further cemented its position in Iraq and Syria by recruiting and training Shiite fighters against the Islamic State.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/19/world/middleeast/iraq-war-iran.html
As Israel and Hezbollah trade near-daily cross-border fire, AFP looks at the group's support for Hamas, its capabilities and whether the Shiite Muslim movement really seeks to open a new front against Israel from southern Lebanon.
Source: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/10/hezbollah-heading-towards-open-conflict-israel
A suicide bomber blew himself up among worshippers attending Friday prayers at a Shiite mosque in northern Afghanistan, killing at least seven people and wounding 15 others, a police spokesperson said.
But while the Palestinian demand for a state slid into an exhausting stalemate over the last 30 years, the revolutionary Shiite regime in Iran came to pose an increasingly dire threat both to its Sunni neighbors and to Israel.
Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/08/netanyahu-israel-united-states-saudi-arabia-abraham-accords/
Feb. 14, 2011, marked the first day of protests led by Bahrain’s Shiite majority against the Sunni monarchy.
FILE PHOTO: Supporters of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr raise the Quran, the Muslims’ holy book, during a demonstration in front of the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad, on June 30, 2023, in response to the burning of Quran in Sweden.
His investigation has been thwarted by a political elite – especially the powerful Iran-backed Shiite group Hezbollah – that fears being found complicit in the use of the chemical for bomb-making and in one of the largest nonnuclear explosions in history.
Iran shares the Shiite faith of a majority of Iraq’s population.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/19/world/middleeast/iraq-war-iran.html
It’s too early to judge their performance, but Otunbayeva noted that the councils for the predominantly Shiite provinces of Bamiyan and Daikundi have no Shiite members.
Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/9987724/afghanistan-taliban-women-gender-apartheid-un/
It’s too early to judge their performance, but Otunbayeva noted that the councils for the predominantly Shiite provinces of Bamiyan and Daikundi have no Shiite members.
Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/9987724/afghanistan-taliban-women-gender-apartheid-un/
MBS has been forced to turn toward other like-minded autocratic states such as China, which earlier this year to open up official relations between the monarchy and Iran’s rival Shiite regime.
Source: https://fortune.com/2023/06/19/lionel-messi-saudi-arabia-25-million-deal/
Opponents of the Shiite theocracy, which has ruled Iran since the 1979 revolution that ousted the shah, have long been known for bashing each other as much as the ayatollahs.
The Israeli military ordered people living in 28 communities within 1.2 miles of the border with Lebanon after an exchange of rocket fire Sunday with the Lebanese Shiite militia, Hezbollah.
Source: https://nypost.com/2023/10/16/israel-evacuates-towns-near-lebanon-during-hezbollah-threat/
The Israeli strikes seemed designed to avoid drawing in the Iran-backed Shiite group, which Israel considers its most immediate threat.
The Kataib Hezbollah is a Shiite militia founded in 2007 with the support of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
The protest overnight in Baghdad was staged at the urging of Muqtada al-Sadr, an influential Shiite cleric who called for the Iraqi government to break off diplomatic relations with Sweden.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/world/middleeast/iraq-sweden-embassy.html
There, in a heartland of Shiite theologians and pilgrims, students at the Noor Yazdanshahr Conservatory fell ill in November.
The Shiite Jihadist party statement added, “This once again demonstrates that the will of the Palestinian people and the weapons of resistance are the only option to confront the enemy and the occupation.
The UAE had cut the level of its diplomatic representation after neighbouring Saudi Arabia severed ties in 2016 following the ransacking of its diplomatic missions in Iran by protesters angered by its execution of a leading Shiite cleric.
Source: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/04/iran-names-envoy-uae-after-nearly-eight-year-absence