Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah: Voice Of the Hizballah

Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, elusive leader of the pro-Iranians holding hostages in Lebanon, talks of terror and money

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How will the death of Ayatullah Khomeini and Hashemi Rafsanjani's election as President of Iran affect the Hizballah?

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I am not the official spokesman for the Hizballah, so I cannot answer this question as an involved person, but I can speak as an observer. There is no major change in strategy, but there is a change in approach, caused by the phase that Iran is now entering. The previous phase was one of war and building the Revolution. The current phase is one of peace and rebuilding the country. The conditions put forward by Rafsanjani for restoring relations with...

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