&gt; &quot;This is laughably false.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s not as straightforward as that:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;wgbh&#x2F;pages&#x2F;frontline&#x2F;shows&#x2F;tehran&#x2F;axis&#x2F;terror.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;wgbh&#x2F;pages&#x2F;frontline&#x2F;shows&#x2F;tehran&#x2F;axis&#x2F;te...</a><p>Here&#x27;s a key quote (from Robert Baer, a former CIA officer):<p>&quot;And how important [is] Hezbollah? ...<p>It&#x27;s extremely important. Hezbollah&#x27;s divided into many parties. There&#x27;s the Islamic Resistance in the south, which beat the Israelis. They attacked the Israeli army. They defeated the Israeli army on Lebanese soil. I do not know how we can describe that other than a national liberation movement.<p>I don&#x27;t agree that Hezbollah itself is a terrorist organization. It delivers powdered milk; it takes care of people. It&#x27;s a social organization; it&#x27;s a political organization. It fights corruption.<p>Then there&#x27;s the Islamic Resistance, which is an army, which is a guerrilla force, fighting for control of its own country. And then, under the Hezbollah umbrella, was the Islamic Jihad, which I call their special security, which was controlled by Iran, which carried out terrorism against the West. And you can paint Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. You can do that for political reasons, but strictly speaking, it is many things. Just as [with] the IRA, you got Sinn Fein and you&#x27;ve got the real IRA, which is conducting terrorism.&quot;