(Israel Hayom) Dr. Yossi Mansharof - Israel has an interest in seeing Hizbullah's image in Lebanon continue to erode and for pressure on the organization to increase. One of the biggest threats to Hizbullah's reputation is revealing to the Lebanese public how its statements of opposition to Israel are in effect pledges of absolute loyalty to Iranian interests, in direct opposition to the policies of the Lebanese government, which aspires to neutrality. In an interview, the deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards in Tehran province revealed that in a meeting with an Iranian delegation, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah had said he did not want to enter the Syrian civil war and explained that Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had convinced and in fact forced him to do so. Israel is in possession of information that could interest Lebanon's citizens and its Shiite community, in particular, regarding events revealed by Hizbullah's patrons in the Revolutionary Guards. It is quite possible that this will also serve to reveal the names of Hizbullah operatives killed in Yemen. The time may have come for Israel to use this information to remove the mask from the organization that is terrorizing Lebanon. The writer is a researcher at the Ezri Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at the University of Haifa.
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