Iran Forces Israel To Backpedal in Lebanon w/ Mohamad Hasan Sweidan
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The episode discusses the implications of Israel's actions in Lebanon and the resilience of Hezbollah amidst ongoing conflicts involving Iran.
This interview is not paywalled so it can be heard by everyone. Support our work and get the ad-free version here . Subscribers get Katie and Aaron’s recap of the craziest moments on corporate media this week: This week we’re looking at the latest in Trump’s regime-change war on Iran and how it’s spilled over into Lebanon, where Israel has just killed another journalist, Amal Khalil. Khalil was assassinated in a “double tap” strike while she was reporting in South Lebanon: the Israelis first hit her car, and then the house she fled to in an attempt to seek refuge. Israeli soldiers then blocked rescue workers from reaching her and she died under the rubble. She is the latest in the hundreds of journalists who have been targeted and killed by Israel since October 7th. To discuss Amal Khalil, the broader regime-change war in Iran, and why Israel is “afraid” of invading Lebanon, we speak with Mohamad Hasan Sweidan, researcher and academic based in Beirut. Useful Idiots: What explains Hezbollah’s resilience? They lost their leader, they suffered very big setbacks with the pager attacks, and lost their land bridge in Syria, through which they could receive arms from Iran. But yet on…
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