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Source: https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-smuggled-in-suitcases-how-iran-is-upgrading-hezbollah-s-rocket-arsenal-1.6978683

Expert: Iran Is Working to Make Syria Shi'ite

(Ha'aretz) Amos Harel - Brig.-Gen. (res.) Dr. Shimon Shapira, an expert on Iran and Hizbullah at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, believes that Iran has begun a major effort to increase its influence over civilian affairs in Syria, an effort reminiscent of what it did with Hizbullah in Lebanon. He noted that Syrian President Assad has allowed foreign Shi'ite militiamen to bring their families to Syria. Moreover, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards are building institutions for them in Syria - schools, religious institutions and even universities where the language of instruction is Farsi. "A quiet revolution is taking place here, whose goal is to make Syria Shi'ite," he said.

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