Iran and Hezbollah in our hemisphere, thanks to Israel Hezbollah is critically wounded but Iran remains a grave threat -- in our own backyard
| Claim | Result | Source Reference | Source Quote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hezbollah is critically wounded thanks to Israel. | rejected | https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/hezbollah-members-among-hundreds-wounded-after-pagers-explode-across-lebanon-and-syria-officials-say | Lebanon’s health minister, Firas Abiad, said at least nine people were killed, including an 8-year-old girl, and 2,750 wounded — 200 of them critically — by the explosions. Most had injuries in the face, hand, or around the abdomen. Hezbollah said in a statement that two of its members were among those killed. The Hezbollah official who spoke anonymously identified one of the dead as Ali Ammar, the son of one of the group’s members in the Lebanese parliament. |
| Hezbollah is critically wounded thanks to Israel. | rejected | https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/hezbollah-attack-wounds-7-israeli-soldiers-10-others-near-lebanon-border-israel-says | Hezbollah later announced attacks on Israeli military gatherings and barracks in border areas Birket Riche and Zareit, as clashes continue to intensify along the tense Lebanon-Israel border. |
| Iran remains a grave threat in our own backyard (referring to the Western Hemisphere). | rejected | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-iran-israel_b_1278865 | In the years of conscious, self-inflicted decline at home, “losses” continued to mount elsewhere. In the past decade, for the first time in 500 years, South America has taken successful steps to free itself from western domination, another serious loss. The region has moved towards integration, and has begun to address some of the terrible internal problems of societies ruled by mostly Europeanized elites, tiny islands of extreme wealth in a sea of misery. They have also rid themselves of all U.S. military bases and of IMF controls. A newly formed organization, CELAC, includes all countries of the hemisphere apart from the U.S. and Canada. |
| Iran remains a grave threat in our own backyard (referring to the Western Hemisphere). | rejected | https://newrepublic.com/post/190018/rudy-giuliani-court-appearance-iran | A New York Supreme Court in Albany found that Kennedy was using an address in Katonah, New York, to vote from while he actually lived in California. Public records show that he voted from that same address this November, according to the watchdog group. Kennedy said he’d been renting a room from a friend at the address, while the friend’s wife testified that he’d only spent a single night there. |
| Iran and Hezbollah are present in our hemisphere (Western Hemisphere). | verified | https://www.propublica.org/article/the-terror-threat-and-irans-inroads-in-latin-america | A year and a half later, Chavez has died and Ahmadinejad is no longer president. But the alliance they built is part of an Iranian expansion in the Americas that worries U.S., Latin American, Israeli and European security officials. |
| Iran and Hezbollah are present in our hemisphere (Western Hemisphere). | verified | https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna17874369 | From its Western base in a remote region divided by the borders of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina known as the Tri-border, or the Triple Frontier, Hezbollah has mined the frustrations of many Muslims among about 25,000 Arab residents whose families immigrated mainly from Lebanon in two waves, after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and after the 1985 Lebanese civil war. |
🤖 Conclusion [30/100]: The statement is: 'Iran and Hezbollah in our hemisphere, thanks to Israel Hezbollah is critically wounded but Iran remains a grave threat -- in our own backyard.' Breaking it down: it is accurate that Iran and Hezbollah are present in the Western Hemisphere (substantiated by investigations and reports on their activities in Latin America). However, the claim that "Hezbollah is critically wounded thanks to Israel" is not supported—recent reporting shows Hezbollah remains active and capable, with no evidence of being critically wounded as an organization. The assertion that "Iran remains a grave threat in our own backyard" is overstated: while Iran has a presence, credible sources do not substantiate it as a 'grave' threat in the Western Hemisphere. Thus, only the presence claim is validated. Overall, the statement is more false than true and scores 30/100 for truthfulness.