ARIEL BEN SOLOMON
jpost.com
August 12, 2013
Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan, nominated to be defense minister by
Iran’s new president Hassan Rouhani, was a commander in Lebanon
overseeing Hezbollah operations during the time of the 1983 bombing of
the US Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon.
According to a report by Brig. Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira, a
senior research associate at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs,
Dehghan was sent to Lebanon and served as a commander of the training
corps of the Revolutionary Guard in Syria and Lebanon. He joined the
Revolutionary Guard after they were formed in 1979 and spent his entire
military career there.
Shapira writes that after Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, Dehghan was
sent to Lebanon and became responsible for supervising Hezbollah’s
military force. Dehghan then took over the command for the Revolutionary
Guard in Lebanon.
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