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The Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2014 () is a bill that would impose sanctions on foreign financial institutions that facilitate transactions or money laundering on behalf of Hezbollah or its agents.〔 Hezbollah is designated a terrorist organization in the United States.〔〔 Sanctions would also be applied to Hezbollah's television station, Al-Manar. The bill was introduced into the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress. ==Background== (詳細はAllah" or "Party of God") is a Shia Islamist militant group and political party based in Lebanon. Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council; once seen as a resistance movement throughout much of the Arab world,〔 this image upon which the group's legitimacy rested has been severely damaged due to the sectarian nature of the Syrian Civil War in which it has become involved since 2012.〔 The group's paramilitary is considered more powerful than the Lebanese Army. Hezbollah, which started with only a small militia, has grown to an organization with seats in the Lebanese government, a radio and a satellite television-station, programs for social development and large-scale military deployment of fighters beyond Lebanon's borders.〔 The organization has been called a state within a state. Hezbollah maintains strong support among Lebanon's Shia population. After the death of Abbas al-Musawi in 1992, the organisation has been headed by Hassan Nasrallah, its Secretary-General. Hezbollah receives military training, weapons, and financial support from Iran, and political support from Syria. Following the end of the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon in 2000, its military strength grew significantly. Despite a June 2000 certification by the United Nations that Israel had withdrawn from all Lebanese territory. Hezbollah fought against Israel in the 2006 Hezbollah-Israel War. After the 2006–2008 Lebanese political protests and clashes, a national unity government was formed in 2008, giving Hezbollah and its opposition allies control of eleven of thirty cabinets seats; effectively veto power.〔 In August 2008, Lebanon's new Cabinet unanimously approved a draft policy statement which secures Hezbollah's existence as an armed organization and guarantees its right to "liberate or recover occupied lands". Since 2012, Hezbollah has helped the Syrian government during the Syrian civil war in its fight against the Syrian opposition, which Hezbollah has described as a zionist plot and a "Wahhabi-Zionist conspiracy" to destroy its alliance with Assad against Israel. The United States, France, the Gulf Cooperation Council, United Kingdom, Australia,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nationalsecurity.gov.au/Listedterroristorganisations/Pages/HizballahsExternalSecurityOrganisationESO.aspx )〕 Canada, the Netherlands,〔Muriel Asseraf, ("Prospects for Adding Hezbollah to the EU Terrorist List" ), September 2007〕 the European Union and Israel classify Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, in whole or in part. The governments of Iran, Russia and China do not share this view of the organization. The United States designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in 1995.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2014」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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