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Reut R. Cohen
The U.S. State Department has referred to Iran as the world’s "most active state sponsor of terrorism." It is a well-known fact that Iran provides Hezbollah and Hamas with weapons. It makes perfect sense considering that both terror groups, in effect, are Iranian proxies which can target Israel from the North and South. On November 4, 2009 the Israeli Navy intercepted an Iranian ship near Cyprus, which is 100 miles west of the Israeli coast. The Iranian ship was sailing under an Antiguan flag.
From Bloomberg:
The Israeli navy intercepted a ship heading for Syria and seized an unprecedented 500-ton haul of weapons from Iran intended for the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, the army said.
“This is the largest cache of smuggled weapons ever to be seized by Israel,” an army spokeswoman, Avital Leibovitz, said in a phone interview today. “The cache includes thousands of rockets as well as hand grenades and mortar shells.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and his Syrian counterpart, Walid Muallem, rejected Israel’s allegations during a joint press conference in Tehran today, Iran’s state-run Press TV reported.
Israel seized the ship 100 miles (160 kilometers) off its Mediterranean coast and discovered 40 containers carrying the weapons, Leibovitz said. The vessel was flying the flag of Antigua and was stopped late yesterday due to “suspicions” about the vessel, she added.
The seizure reflected “a well-known Iranian technique, taking advantage of cargo ships flying different flags in order to smuggle containers loaded with large amounts of highly volatile weaponry to terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah,” the army said in a statement. Israeli officials have accused Iran and Syria previously of supplying weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Islamic Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip....
Read the full report here.
Also See:
- Hezbollah stockpiles 40,000 rockets near Israel border
- Weapons Cache Discovered by IDF Forces in Nablus on June 3, 2009
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