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Who is Hezbollah? [audio 34min]

Amid the fighting in Lebanon, one name keeps coming up: Hezbollah. According to the United States and Israel, Hezbollah's members are Iranian-backed terrorists. Nonetheless, the group is a political force and provider of social services to some in Lebanon. Guests: Augustus Richard Norton, professor of international relations at Boston University; As'ad Abukhalil, professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus, and visiting professor at UC Berkeley; Dan Schueftan, deputy director of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa, Israel.
Read entire article at NPR "Talk of the Nation"