Word: mugniyah
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...number of potential triggers for such a conflagration. Hizballah, which has rearmed in violation of U.N. resolutions and is even more powerful than it was before the summer 2006 war with Israel, still claims the right to retaliate for the 2007 assassination of its operations chief, Imad Mugniyah. And although Hamas is enforcing a halt to rocket fire from Gaza, it has also vowed to avenge the assassination of a top operative in Dubai in January. Israel, for its part, has threatened to attack Iran if diplomatic efforts fail to stop the Islamic Republic's nuclear program...
...Though some of the steps taken so far may seem tiny, they are in fact giant leaps forward for Iran's reform movement. For example, in early October around the time when the FBI put Hizballah operative Imad Mugniyah on its most-wanted list, Tehran told him in no uncertain terms to leave the country, a move that would have been unthinkable 15 years ago when Iran was a supporter of Hizballah terrorist activity in Lebanon directed against Israeli and Western interests...
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