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Iran's Regime Says: Lebanon Is Ours
(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - The deadline for the Iranian ambassador to leave Lebanon was Sunday. Beirut declared Mohammad Reza Shibani persona non grata, but he's still there, at his embassy. On Monday Iran's Foreign Ministry said he won't be leaving Lebanon, and the message is clear: Neither will Iran. The Iranian regime is so used to ordering around the Lebanese in their own country, why should it begin respecting Lebanese sovereignty now? Iran's regime came to Beirut in the 1980s to kill hundreds of Americans. Later it took over southern Lebanon and used it to drag the whole country into a needless conflict with Israel punctuated by two devastating wars, and now a third. Tehran accomplished these feats via Hizbullah, a Shiite militia devoted to Iran's Supreme Leader. This war, which Hizbullah began by firing at Israel on March 2, is waged for Iran's regime. Lebanon has no interest in it. But the shots are called in Tehran, which needs Israel preoccupied with a second war front. Revolutionary Guard commanders are now conducting a war from Lebanese territory.