The Hezbollah Movement in Iraq is a Shi'a Islamist, Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

i political party that is part of the United Iraqi Alliance

United Iraqi Alliance

The National Iraqi Alliance , also known as the Watani List, is an Iraqi electoral coalition that contested the Iraqi legislative election, 2010. The Alliance is mainly composed of Shi'a Islamist parties...

 coalition. It is not affiliated with the Lebanese

Lebanon

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 group Hezbollah or other groups using the name. Hezbollah, or more literally Hizb Allah (‮حزب الله‬), means "Party of God" in Arabic

Arabic language

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The party publishes the Al-Bayyna newspaper and is led by Hassan Al-Sari

Hassan al-Sari

Hassan al-Sari is currently a Syrian Minister of State, serving since 2011.Al-Sari was born in 1953 in Hama. He earned a degree in Arabic at the University of Damascus in 1979. He is a poet and a member of the Arab Writers Union...

. Hezbollah originated as an underground anti-Saddam

Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...

 network. Unlike other anti-Saddam groups it remained based in Iraq, not setting up shop in Iran

Iran

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 or the west. The party is closely aligned to the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, previously known as the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq.