Iranian State Media: Hezbollah Bringing Back ‘Stability’ to the Region

Iranian state outlet PressTV published a story Tuesday claiming that the Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah is bringing back “stability” to the region.

Citing the view of the “journalist and political analyst” Mostafa Khoshcheshm, the Iranian propaganda arm PressTV claimed that the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Hezbollah, the Syrian Arab Army, the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) and the Russian military were providing stability to the region.

The analyst argued:

If people in the United States or China are buying gas for some certain prices for each gallon and they are not buying it for 100 dollars per gallon, it is because of the lives that have been lost in the war against ISIL (Daesh) and other terrorist groups in the region that was led by Major General Qassem Soleimani and his troops as well as the Russians, Hezbollah, Hashd al-Shabi (the Popular Mobilization Units of Iraq) and of course the Syrian army and national defense forces.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned the IRGC for terrorist activity, Hezbollah is an active terrorist group, the Syrian Arab Army operates under control of President Bashar al-Assad, who obeys Iran, and the PMF stand accused of a variety of crimes against humanity and have repeatedly threatened to kill Americans fighting the Islamic State.

Iran has long provided financial assistance to Hezbollah, which has planned and carried out numerous terrorist attacks since its formation in 1985, and currently arms Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian Arab Army in the Syrian civil war. In September, the group quadrupled its funding from $200 million to $800 million.

Some analysts believe that, with the impending collapse of the Islamic State, Hezbollah is preparing for war with Israel and Saudi Arabia. Israeli defense officials claim the organization has an arsenal of between 100,000 and 150,000 missiles and a fighting force of 50,000 soldiers ready for war with Israel.

Saudi officials have recently called for an international coalition to defeat the organization, describing it as the “Party of Satan,” and “worse than the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda put together,” while Israeli forces recently conducted their largest drill in two decades, with tens of thousands of soldiers simulating a 10-day war scenario.

Meanwhile, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani declared on Tuesday the end of the Islamic State in a live address broadcast on state TV, thanking Hezbollah for the “decisive” role in their defeat.

The country’s increasing support for Hezbollah will further strange relations with the United States. In October, President Donald Trump announced that he would not certify Iran’s compliance with the nuclear deal signed under Barack Obama, effectively putting the ball in Congress’s court on whether to end the deal.

“We will not continue down a path of whose predictable conclusion is more violence, more terror, and the very real threat of Iran’s nuclear breakout,” Trump said.“History has shown that the longer we ignore a threat, the more dangerous that threat becomes.”

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