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Iran Benefits from Arab Chaos
(Daily Star-Lebanon) Michael Young - With all the attention focused on a nuclear deal between Iran and the West, there has not been much discussion of the expansion of Iranian influence in the Middle East. Iran has a finger in several Arab pies. Tehran's influence over Iraq and its government is said to be significant. In Lebanon, its ties with Hizbullah have given it a major role in deciding the fate of the country. In the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Iran has re-established ties with a financially strapped Hamas. And in Syria, Tehran has played an essential part in bolstering Bashar Assad's regime.