BERLIN – The head of the Washington Institute’s Stein Program on
Counterterrorism and Intelligence, Dr. Matthew Levitt, on Wednesday issued a
report detailing the intensified and reorganized collaboration between Hezbollah
and Iran’s Quds Force to commit terror acts against Western countries and
Israel.
According to the report, “the Hezbollah-Quds Force threat has
sometimes eclipsed that of al-Qaida.“ The 17-page study notes that “Iranian
decision-makers settled on a campaign of violence based on a three-tiered threat
stream targeting the following: Israeli tourists, government figures (diplomats,
retired officials), and targets broadly representative of Israel or the Jewish
community (community leaders, prominent Israeli companies).”
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