● Iran’s intervention in Lebanon in the early 1980s changed the power balance of that country and the wider Middle East forever. Iran first built up a Shia terror movement, Hezbollah. It now supports Hamas with substantial funds and training. The results are clear: Hamas’s recent mass slaughter in Israel showed unprecedented levels of sophisticated, long-term military planning
All of which makes Ghosts of Beirut, now showing on Paramount+ and available via Amazon Prime, a highly topical as well as often enthralling series.
The Ghost in question is Imad Mughniyeh, once the
