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Iran using European ports to hide weapons shipments to Hezbollah — report
2024-03-16
[IsraelTimes] UK’s Telegraph says Israel’s thwarting of overland arms transfers has led Tehran to send materiel via sea, with vessels then continuing to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
to allay suspicions


Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has been using European ports to help disguise weapons shipments to the Hezbollah terror group in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, the UK’s Telegraph newspaper reported on Thursday, citing unnamed sources.

According to the report, the ships unload weapons in the Syrian port of Latakia, which are then taken south into Hezbollah’s native Lebanon. From Latakia, the ships continue to ports in Italia, Spain and Belgium to help conceal the goal of the trips.

"Using Europe helps to hide the nature and the source of the shipments, switching paperwork and containers... to clean the shipments," the paper cited a senior Israeli intelligence source as saying,

"Europe has huge ports so Iran is using that as a camouflage. It’s very easy to do manipulations in those big ports where things have to get moved quickly, rather than a small port where there will be more scrutiny."

Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, causing loss of life and widespread damage, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
amid the war there. Border communities have been largely evacuated for long months amid the ongoing attacks.

Intelligence analyst Ronen Solomon told the Telegraph that the sea shipments were a recent occurrence from "the last month" because of "Israeli attacks on air and land infrastructure in Syria to Lebanon, so we are seeing an increase in container shipments."

Although Israel has struck Iran-linked targets in Syria for years, including areas where Hezbollah has been active, Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s against Iranian arms transfers have become deadlier and more frequent since October 7, Rooters cited unnamed Syrian intelligence sources as saying in January.

In December 2021, the Latakia port was hit twice by airstrikes targeting Iranian munitions en route to Hezbollah. Though Israel did not officially acknowledge conducting either attack, hours after the second one then-Defense Minister Benny Gantz warned Iran against sending arms to the region.

Hezbollah has named more than 240 members who have been killed by Israel since October 8. Another 40 operatives from other terror groups have also been killed in strikes on southern Lebanon, as well as a Lebanese soldier and at least 30 civilians, three of whom were journalists.

The near-daily exchanges of fire along the shared Israel-Lebanon border have caused seven civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 10 Israeli soldiers and reservists.

Mediators have thus far been unsuccessful in reaching an agreement between Israel and the Lebanese terrorist group, fueling fears of an all-out war on Israel’s northern border, and preventing the return home of the roughly 60,000 residents who have been displaced from northern Israel since October.

Israel has said it will no longer tolerate Hezbollah’s presence along its border and is demanding it be made to honor the 2006 UN resolution that ended the Second Lebanon War and withdraw to a distance of several kilometers from the border.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  The same EUropean countries that stop "military" exports to Israel?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-03-16 04:55  

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