Thread by @HeshmatAlavi

#BREAKING
UK Treasury designates #Iran-backed Hezbollah in its entirety for violation of "Terrorism & Terrorist Financing" rules, freezes the groups assets in accordance with terrorist group asset freeze law.

Other European countries should follow suit.
reuters.com/article/britai…

Reminders:
1)
"Iran has multiplied its support for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah to more than $700 million a year, according to US estimates."
thenational.ae/world/the-amer…

2)
Hezbollah receives everything from food, expenses to weaponry from the mullahs' ruling #Iran, according to Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

3)
On July 20th, 1987, Iran’s Resalat daily wrote the Beirut bombings citing Rafiqdoust, “… both the TNT and ideology behind the attacks that sent 400 American officers and soldiers to hell in the U.S. Marines command base in Beirut came from Iran.”
english.alarabiya.net/en/features/20…

4)
Ali Alizadeh (@Ali7adeh / @Jedaaal), a known & disgraced apologist/lobbyist of the mullahs ruling #Iran, is a UK-based Hezbollah supporter.
He's a regular at @bbcpersian.