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Commenting on Hizbullah’s opposition to UN Security Council Resolution 425 concerning the deployment of UNIFIL in southern Lebanon, Sheikh Abdul Karim Obeid, a leader of the party, revealed the kind of relationship that exists between Hizbullah and Iran in these words:
We already announced our decision. It is a decision that cannot be separated from that of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It said no and we say no. We don’t think too much in these matters. In political matters the Islamic Republic decides and we support it directly.’
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See, for example, Fouad Ajami, The Vanished Imam: Musa al Sadr and the Shi’a of Lebanon (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986). Chapters 1 and 2.
Salim Nasr, ‘Mobilisation Communautaire et Symbolique Religieuse: Imam Sadr et les chi’ite du Liban (1970–1975) in Olivier Carré et Paul Dumond (eds), Radicalismes Islamiques: Iran, Liban, Turquie ( Paris: Editions L’Harmattan, 1985 ), pp. 127–8.
Klaus Knorr, The Power of Nations: The Political Economy of International Relations ( New York: Basic Books, 1975 ), pp. 310–19.
See, for example, Gary Sick, ‘Iran’s Quest for Status’, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 65, Spring 1987, no. 4, p. 716.
For a definition of these linkage processes, see James Rosenau, ‘Toward the Study of National-International Linkages’, in James Rosenau (ed.), Linkage Politics (New York: The Free Press, 1969), p. 49 ff.
Jim Muir, ‘Lebanon: As economy shatters, Hizbullah picks up the pieces’, The Christian Science Monitor, 21–7 December 1987, p. 6.
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Hitti, N. (1993). Lebanon in Iran’s Foreign Policy: Opportunities and Constraints. In: Amirahmadi, H., Entessar, N. (eds) Iran and the Arab World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22538-5_10
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