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Reann wrote:

Wouldn't say that Lebanon was somehow corrupted by Iran, considering the post-independence history of the country and the 1958 crisis, alongside the civil war of course.
Iran has just been able to use the situation there to foster the Hesbollah and its aligned forces.

Late, but even Iran was pretty nice and on the way to be a Turkey-esque secular nation back in the 1970s before the extremists took over (of course the monarchy had its own issues, but they were certainly not the Islamic hardliners of today)