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John Cornyn: “Hezbollah's threat to the United States and Israel is not…”

Featuring: John Cornyn, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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In 2020, the US State Department estimated that Iran provided as much as $700 million in funds to Hezbollah annually and one of Hezbollah's main supplier and was one of Hezbollah's main suppliers of military technology. Hezbollah's threat to the United States and Israel is not geographically confined to the Middle East. In 1992, at Iran's direction, Hezbollah bombed the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29 people and wounding 242. And in 1994, Hezbollah ordered. (01:45–01:53)

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Asserts that Hezbollah's threat extends beyond the Middle East.

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