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‘Prime moment for Hezbollah and the Houthis’: US-Israeli strikes on Iran risk igniting regional war

As the US and Israel launched air strikes on Iran early on Saturday, FRANCE 24 spoke to Middle East expert Hussein Ibish about the risk of Iranian allies – notably Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen – launching their own retaliatory attacks against US forces, igniting a wider regional war. 

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