US-Iran-Israel War: After the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iranian One of the main priorities of the regime has been to spread its influence abroad. In 1984, America declared Iran a sponsor of terrorism. It is believed that Iran is a country which has the most powerful proxies in the whole world.
Iran is accused of providing financial support, training and weapons to terrorist groups around the world, especially Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Iran is quite famous for its 3H proxies. Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthi. Whenever there is any threat to Iran, these organizations become very active.
How do these proxies work?
Tehran has used dozens of militias and terrorist groups in the Middle East. These groups work under the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The IRGC’s special operations unit, the Quds Force, has provided arms, training and financial support to Middle East countries such as Bahrain, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Yemen. Let us know about Iran’s 3H proxy.
Hamas, or Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyyah, is a Sunni Islamic terrorist organization that leads the Gaza Strip. It was formed in 1988 by separating from the Muslim Brotherhood during the first intifada. Its target is the destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic state. Hamas wants to re-create the same Palestine that existed before the creation of Israel.
Iran had provided financial, arms and training support to Hamas through the IRGC since the 1990s. Although Iran stopped financial aid to Hamas in 2012 for not supporting Assad in the Syrian civil war, it resumed financial aid in 2017. According to senior Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, “Iran provides the greatest support to Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.”
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Hezbollah is active in Lebanon. This organization also has wide influence on the Lebanese government. It was formed among Shia Muslims during the Lebanese Shia War in the 1980s. In 1984, Hezbollah bombed the US Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people.
Hezbollah has also established terrorist networks in Europe, Latin America and Africa. The same organization is accused of attacking the AMIA Center in Buenos Aires in 1994 and attacking Israeli tourists in Bulgaria in 2012.
The Houthi movement in Yemen is backed by Iran and has been supported by the IRGC since 2011. After the Saudi-led coalition intervened in the Yemen war in 2015, Iran increased training and arms supplies.
Houthis have launched missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia and UAE. In January 2022, three people were killed and six injured in an attack by the Houthis on Abu Dhabi. In October 2023, Hamas attacked Israel and after this, when Israel attacked Gaza, the Houthis intensified attacks on ships in the Red Sea and missile-drone attacks on Israel.
During this time, the Houthis also captured an American ship. The US had created a naval task force in December 2023 to stop Houthi attacks, which includes Britain, Canada, France, Bahrain, Norway and Spain.
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