Topic > The birth of Hezbollah from the ruins of the Amal movement

• The birth of Hezbollah from the ruins of the Amal movementWhen the Iranian Revolution succeeded in 1979, Iran wanted to earn the admiration and support of the Arab countries, benefiting in particular by the support of the Shah of Iran and his relationship with Israel before the collapse of his regime. On that very first day of the victory of the revolution, Iran wished to extend its ties with the Islamic world, and when this was not possible in most cases, due to the many complex causes of the revolution, Iran began to seek « organizations” instead of “regimes or countries”, to continue its role in Islamic affairs. Iran was keen to demonstrate that this role was one of the foundations of the revolution and its beliefs, to free Iran from the accusation of Persian racism. Relations between Iran and Syria had entered a phase of strategic coordination, thanks to two men, Saddam Hussein and Musa al-Sadr, although the impact of each was very different. Through Musa al-Sadr and his group in the Amal movement, including some prominent Iranians such as Mustafa Chamran, the first defense minister in the post-revolutionary government of Iran, the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad got to know Ayatollah Khomeini and his ideas, to the point that Iranian activists close to Khomeini carried Syrian diplomatic passports, before the February 1979 revolution. After Musa al-Sadr, former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein played a role in strengthening relations between Tehran and Damascus, without realizing the effects this would have on Iraq and the region. Saddam engaged in a war with Iran soon after the revolution. Not only did Tehran feel in danger, but a sense of danger spread from Tehran to Dam... in the center of the paper... the Iraqi Awa party, which grew up under the auspices of the Iranian political tide and felt the need to create an armed religious and political party. As the relationship between Iran and the Amal movement was influenced by the political differences between them which opened the door to the creation of Hezbollah, the same misunderstanding occurred between revolutionary Iran and the Amal Movement Fatah Movement. Iran viewed the Palestinian revolution as a card in its struggle against the West, while the Fatah movement viewed its relations with Iran as a way to increase its power in the national struggle for the restoration of the occupied Palestinian territories. Just as differences between Iran and the Amal movement led to the birth of Hezbollah, differences between Tehran and Fatah later led to the birth of Hamas and Islamic Jihad..