By "terrorist groups", Mr Powell means the Lebanese Hizbollah and the Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Lebanon's Cedar Revolution has been hijacked by Hizbollah, the Shi'ite terrorist group armed and financed by Iran.
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Hizbollah, Lebanon's Iran-backed Shia militia, dropped its sharply critical line on Iraqi affairs in favour of celebrating Shia gains.
This, like Iran's sponsorship of armed Shia factions in Iraq, and of Hizbollah, the Lebanese Shia group, is controlled by the supreme leader.
Last month, after weeks of effort, we finally managed to prevent Hizbollah spokesman Ibrahim el-Moussawi from entering the UK to lecture at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
There are also errors: the authors do not seem to know, for example, that the Israeli-backed militia in south Lebanon is largely Shia, just like the Hizbollah guerrillas it confronts.
Israel has long complained about Iran's links with Hizbollah.
In New York on February 4th, Shimon Peres, Israel's foreign minister, stepped up Israel's criticism of Iran, saying it had recently supplied Hizbollah with 10, 000 Katusha missiles capable of striking Israeli cities.
The Shi'ite position is less strict - within the last five years Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, the current spiritual leader of the Hizbollah movement in Lebanon, permitted the use of donor eggs and even donor sperm under certain circumstances.
Expressing utmost concern at the spiralling deadly violence and destruction in Lebanon, the Security Council today called for a full cessation of hostilities in the month-long war between Israel and Hizbollah, mapping out a formula for the phased withdrawal of the Israel Defence Forces from southern Lebanon, while up to 15, 000 United Nations peacekeepers help Lebanese troops take control of the area.
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