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to the annihilation of both countries. It's the fact that Iran doesn't even need to test a nuclear weapon to undermine Israeli military leverage in Lebanon and Syria. Just reaching the nuclear threshold could embolden Iranian leaders to call on their proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah, to attack Israel, knowi
ondemnation. This, despite the fact that the stakes in Syria are higher, from a strategic standpoint, than in Libya. By the time NATO acted against Moammar Kadafi, he was an isolated despot who had given up sponsoring terrorism and building weapons of mass destruction. Not so with Bashar Assad: His re
dle East in his first year in office, with the rise of Islamist governments and the widening repercussions of civil revolt. After Obama helped topple Moammar Gaddafi in Libya in 2011, many in the region wondered when he would emerge again to help shape the course of the tumultuous Arab Spring, which has re
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029693 →t Iran. For example, the United States took no direct military action against Iran after it aided and abetted Hezbollah bombings against Americans in Lebanon in the 1980s, after Iran supported the bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996, or even after Iran supported the deadly campaign of improvis
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029722 →dle East in his first year in office, with the rise of Islamist governments and the widening repercussions of civil revolt. After Obama helped topple Moammar Gaddafi in Libya in 2011, many in the region wondered when he would emerge again to help shape the course of the tumultuous Arab Spring, which has re
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029780 →t Iran. For example, the United States took no direct military action against Iran after it aided and abetted Hezbollah bombings against Americans in Lebanon in the 1980s, after Iran supported the bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996, or even after Iran supported the deadly campaign of improvis
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029809 →Entities connected to both Lebanon and Moammar

Barack Obama
PERSON
United States
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George W. Bush
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Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Jeffrey Epstein
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Tehran
LOCATION
Bill Clinton
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Middle East
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Terje Rod-Larsen
PERSON
Donald Trump
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Yemen
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Joe Biden
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Saddam Hussein
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Marc Rich
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Cairo
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Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
Fatah
ORGANIZATION
Bahrain
LOCATION
West Bank
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