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  • Essay / The birth of Hezbollah on the ruins of the Amal movement

    • The birth of Hezbollah on the ruins of the Amal movement When the Iranian revolution succeeded in 1979, Iran wanted to gain the admiration and support of Arab countries, benefiting in particular from the support of the Shah of Iran and his relations with Israel before the collapse of his regime. On this very first day of the victory of the revolution, Iran wanted to expand its ties with the Islamic world, and when this was not possible in most cases, due to many complex causes of the revolution, the Iran began looking for "organizations" instead of "regime or country", in order to continue playing its role in Islamic issues. Iran wanted to show that this role was one of the foundations of the revolution and its beliefs, in order to free Iran from the accusation of Persian racism. Relations between Iran and Syria had entered a phase of strategic coordination, thanks to two men, Saddam Hussein and Musa al-Sadr, even if the impact of each was very different. Through Musa al-Sadr and his Amal Movement group, including some Iranian leaders such as Mustafa Chamran, the first defense minister of the post-revolutionary government of Iran, the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad became acquainted of Ayatollah Khomeini and his ideas. , to the extent that Iranian activists close to Khomeini were provided with Syrian diplomatic passports, before the revolution of February 1979. After Moussa al-Sadr, former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein played a role in strengthening relations between Tehran and Damascus, without realizing it. effects this would have on Iraq and the region. Saddam engaged in war with Iran shortly after the revolution. Not only did Tehran feel in danger, but a sense of danger spread from Tehran to Dam...... middle of paper ......awa party of Iraq, which grew up under the auspices of the Iranian political tide and felt the need to create an armed religious and political party. While relations between Iran and the Amal movement were affected by the political differences between them which opened the door to the creation of Hezbollah, the same misunderstanding occurred between revolutionary Iran and the Amal movement. Fatah movement. Iran saw the Palestinian revolution as an asset in its struggle against the West, while the Fatah movement saw its relations with Iran as a way to strengthen its power in the national struggle for the restoration of the occupied Palestinian territories. Just as the differences between Iran and the Amal movement led to the birth of Hezbollah, the differences between Tehran and Fatah later led to the birth of Hamas and Islamic Jihad..