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Repeated risk

A Hassan Nasrallah mural is installed in Tehran last Sunday (VAHID SALEMI/AP)

In 1992, Israeli media celebrated an assassination. The man killed then was Abbas al-Musawi, the secretary general of Hezbollah. Then, as now, Israeli analysts speculated that Musawi’s death might lead to the end of Hezbollah, which was founded after Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982.

The opposite would turn out to be true.

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