Yasir Arafat’s Decades-Long Alliance with Iran and Its Consequences for Both Palestinians and Iranians
A relationship that predates the 1979 revolution.
January 18, 2019
Yasir Arafat’s Decades-Long Alliance with Iran and Its Consequences for Both Palestinians and Iranians
A relationship that predates the 1979 revolution.
In 2002—at the height of the second intifada—the Israeli navy intercepted the Karina A, a Lebanese vessel carrying 50 tons of Iranian arms to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). But Yasir Arafat’s relationship with the Islamic Republic goes much farther back, to before its founding in 1979. The terrorist leader had forged ties with followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini that grew especially strong in the years when Lebanon became a base of operations both for Iranian opponents of the shah and for the PLO itself. Tony Badran writes:
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