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Great Altera wrote:

Hezbollah and the removal/murder of Christian communities; forcing their exile into the West. Like Iranians, many Lebonese fled the now Islamic dominant government.

Yes. While I do agree with the fact that Hezbollah was obviously inspired by the Iranian revolution and by vilayat-e-faqih ideology, as well as funded from the start by the Iranian regime, the basis for the movement is very much tied with the religious situation in Lebanon and with the geopolitics surrounding the Lebanese civil war, especially because of the Israeli invasion of South Lebanon. Especially as the south is primarily shi'ite and they have had a history of relative under-representation (debatable but heard this a lot) compared to the maronite and sunni communities.

Additionally and I should have pointed this out earlier, my main point was also to do with the notion that the whole of Lebanon was corrupted by Iran. As the maronites and sunnis still wield a lot of power, my view is more that the Iranian regime has managed to make the shi'ite population more extreme. Which you could argue has made the whole power structure more radicalized.

Hell even parts (although afaik minor) of the sunni population there even welcomed ISIS.

Whole country is a mess sadly.