Elijah Magnier on the smear that Hezbollah is a mere "proxie":
No country in modern history has endured nearly 30,000 strikes over forty days by two nuclear powers – one the strongest military power in the world, the other the most heavily equipped army in the Middle East – and then imposed a condition for ending the war on a third front, Lebanon.
Iran has effectively made clear that without an end to the war there, the broader deal collapses, while signalling its readiness to continue fighting in support of its allies.
This is extraordinary. It overturns decades of simplistic claims that Hezbollah is merely a proxy built to fight on Iran’s behalf. A state does not risk the collapse of a strategic agreement, the continuation of war, and further direct confrontation simply for a disposable 'proxy'.
What the war has revealed is not a one-way chain of command, but a regional alliance in which Iran treats Lebanon and Hezbollah as central strategic allies, not expendable instruments.
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