Reply #3: Altogether unlikely...

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a thousand elite fighters represents more than half of Hezbollah's full time force. Its unlikely that Nasrallah would let his best and brightest simply saunter off to Syria and be left vulnerable in the meantime. Moreover, moving a thousand fighters isnt something that would pass without comment in the Lebanese media, which so far has said nothing.

And if Assad can't trust anyone outside the Alawi oligarchy, Im not sure why he could trust Hezbollah. They have fought on prior occasions and most members of HA have a distinctly dim view of Alawites.

Thirdly, Hezbollah werent on the streets of Tehran beating up protests. That was Ansar-e-Hezb, essentially a Hezbollah fan club with no real connection to HA proper, as well as other groups making up the Basij militia.