Hezbollah
Assad regime is intimately involved in lucrative operation to smuggle Captagon into Europe, Jordan, Turkey and the Gulf states, pro-Saudi news outlet reports.
The sanctioned individuals and companies are said to be generating hundreds of millions of dollars for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force and Hezbollah.
The designation will result in all property and interests in property, and all businesses owned directly, indirectly or partially by the individuals named being blocked and reported to the Office of Foreign Assets Control.
“Lebanon was the Islamic empire’s first target. Over the past decade, it has fallen like a ripe fruit into Iran’s hands,” said Jacques Neriah, a special analyst for the Middle East at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
The Hezbollah-allied Free Patriotic Movement looks set to lose its position as the largest Christian party in the Lebanese parliament.
The strikes reportedly targeted weapons depots and “Iranian sites,” in an area known to house facilities associated with Hezbollah’s precision-missile project.
Despite sharing an interest in limiting Iran’s entrenchment in Syria, Russia has developed ways to express displeasure to Israel that include allowing weapons transfers, according to a new report.
The Alma Center said Russia has a range of ways to transmit messages of displeasure to Jerusalem over Israel’s “gray zone” campaign against Iranian targets, despite sharing an overall interest in Syria.
Suspects from inside Israel arrived to pick up a bag containing five MP5 submachine guns and M-16 ammunition.
The smuggling operation is being run by a member of Hezbollah’s 133 Unit, which is responsible for establishing a terror infrastructure in Israel, according to the Israeli military.
The fragmentation-type grenades were likely intended for use in crowded civilian areas, say police; Hezbollah’s role is under investigation.
The immediate suspect is the Hamas presence based in Lebanon, though it could also be Fatah or Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
