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Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed Shiite forces will join the battle if Iran were to be attacked by the U.S. or Israel over its nuclear program, political analysts said Tuesday.
A Hezbollah source refused to say what the party would do if Iran were attacked by either America or Israel.
America's policy aims to push the region toward tensions and instability, with the intention of exerting pressure on Iran and bringing it to the negotiation table," the source told The Daily Star.
But in one of his speeches, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah warned that all fronts the Iraqi, Syrian and south Lebanon fronts would be ignited if Iran were to be attacked by America or Israel.
Imad Salamey, associate professor of political science and international affairs at the Lebanese American University, said the U.S. military show of force in the Gulf region was intended to force Iran to the negotiation table. But he warned that any war with Iran would push Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed Shiite forces to attack Israel.
Salamey cautioned that a U.S. attack on Iran could spark a global war.
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