Hezbollah is a Shiite movement and Iran's first proxy in the Middle East, possessing a militia founded in the early 1980s with financial and military support from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, and a political party that first ran for office in 1992.

Authors

• Person: Ashley Lane Organization: Wilson Center
  Iran's Islamist Proxies in the Middle East - Wilson Center

Sources

• Iran's Islamist Proxies in the Middle East - Wilson Center www.wilsoncenter.org Ashley Lane · Wilson Center via serper

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• Middle East location
• Hezbollah entity