Breitbart.com reports: “Lebanon is the target of ‘a systematic and calculated strategy by Iran and its minions to empty the country of its Christians,’ Habib C. Malik told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Wednesday.

Malik, Senior Fellow on Lebanon and Middle Eastern Christians at The Philos Project, said Iran and its ‘proxies’ are intentionally creating the conditions (poverty, collapse, instability, fear, despair) that are forcing Lebanon’s Christians to emigrate.

‘The principal Iranian proxy now dominating Lebanon is Hezbollah, the armed Lebanese Shiite group beholden firstly to the Iranian ideological and expansionist agenda, and not to Lebanon,’ Malik told Breitbart News…”