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not give voice to that concern. He told his staff during recent Situation Room meetings as American naval and air power was moved into the eastern Mediterranean that no United States intervention would alter the long-term balance of power in the Syrian civil war. That was the bitter lesson of the Iraq and A

ary efforts of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in facing opposition forces. Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov er ported that Nasrallah had told him, when he met with him on April 27 during a visit to Lebanon, "I intervened in Syria to save the regime, which was on the verge of coll

the peace on the Israeli=Syrian border. But the Syrians had also stoked tensions on the Lebanese-Israeli frontier and had given Ir=n access to the Mediterranean, so perilously close to Israel. It was the b=tter part of wisdom to steer clear of Syria's fire.=/p> But alleged Israeli airstrikes <http://www.was

zbollah, to dispatch young foot soldiers to Damascus and drape his support for the Syrian dictator in the =arb of religious duty. Terrorist groups, Nasrallah sai= on April 30, had threatened to overrun and destroy the shrine. "If such=a crime were to take place, it will carry with it grave consequences,"

ployed advanced radar systems in Israel to provide early warning against long-range missiles, and holds military exercises on our soil and in the Mediterranean , preparing an American response in case Israel has to defend itself against missile attacks from Iran. We received about $1 billion from • the

or the North Chinese Sea Islands. Hezbollah is busy in Syria — and • would generally prefer to avoid provoking Israel. Some here would say that Nasrallah has been deterred, that the memory of 2006 is still fresh in his mind and he will not act. I have my reservations about the deterministic nature

especially if initial U.S. strikes seemed devastating to the point of decisive. But their involvement would spread the conflict to the entire eastern Mediterranean and perhaps beyond, complicating both U.S. military operations and coalition diplomacy. It seems fairly clear then that a conflict with Iran is unli

ability to conduct terrorist or special operations against civilian, military and infrastructure targets outside the immediate theater of war. Sheikh Nasrallah has plausibly threatened to attack shipping in the eastern Mediterranean in the event of a conflict with Israel.12 If Hizballah were to gain access t

raine or the North Chinese Sea Islands. • Hezbollah is busy in Syria - and would generally prefer to avoid provoking Israel. Some here would say that Nasrallah has been deterred, that the memory of 2006 is still fresh in his mind and he will not act. I have my reservations about the deterministic nature of t

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Ukraine or the North Chinese Sea Islands. Hezbollah is busy in Syria - and would generally prefer to avoid provoking Israel. Some here would say that Nasrallah has been deterred, that the memory of 2006 is still fresh in his mind and he will not act. I have my reservations about the deterministic nature of t

s deployed advanced radar systems in Israel to provide early warning against long-range missiles, and holds military exercises on our soil and in the Mediterranean, preparing an American response in case Israel has to defend itself against missile attacks from Iran. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029377 --- PAGE BREAK --- •