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Following the U.S. & UK, Germany classifies #Iran-backed Hezbollah as a terrorist org, conducts raids
reut.rs/3aQfPBQ

Reminders:
-Iran provides more than $700 mn/yr to Hezbollah
-Hezbollah chief: "As long as Iran has money, we have money"
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Last December, Germany’s parliament approved a motion urging Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to ban all activities by #Iran-backed Hezbollah on German soil, citing its “terrorist activities” especially in Syria.

Scenes of security forces raiding Hezbollah-linked sites.
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Hezbollah is a terrorist organization established, funded, trained and equipped by the regime ruling Iran ever since the early 1980s.
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“In line with its pillar policy of exporting terrorism and warmongering across the Middle East, one of Iran’s first objectives was to launch a central command base for the IRGC and its local mercenaries in Lebanon.”

Hezbollah
english.alarabiya.net/en/features/20…
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Now, let’s discuss what MSM will not recall.
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Iran benefited fully from western appeasement:

"… the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah"
politico.com/interactives/2…
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“The eight-year investigation came to a head just as the Obama administration was negotiating a deal for Iran to put aside their nuclear ambitions.”
telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/1…
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“Obama protected Hezbollah drug ring to save Iran nukes deal”
nypost.com/2017/12/18/oba…
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“This was a policy decision, it was a systematic decision,” said David Asher, an illicit finance expert. “They serially ripped apart this entire effort that was very well supported and resourced, and it was done from the top down.”
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When appeasement enters dangerous sectors of a government:

“John Brennan, Mr. Obama’s counterterror chief who later led the CIA, had argued in May 2010 that Hezbollah was evolving into a political party.”
wsj.com/articles/obama…
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Here's a look at what John Brennan calls a "political party"...
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“Project Cassandra officials told Politico that they were transferred to other assignments after Mr. Obama’s deal with Iran was announced in January 2016.”
washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/…
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“.... the Obama Justice Department refused to pursue Abdallah Safieddine, the leader in charge of coordinating Hezbollah’s global drug trafficking operations, who also serves as Hezbollah’s liaison officer in Tehran”
thehill.com/opinion/nation…
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Obama’s appeasement vis-a-vis get even more disturbing:
lawfareblog.com/hezbollah-drug…
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And:
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“Hezbollah & Iran cultivated alliances with govs along the ‘cocaine corridor’ from the tip of S. America to Mexico, to turn them against the U.S. The strategy worked in Bolivia, Ecuador & Venezuela, which evicted the DEA, shuttering strategic bases…”
politico.com/interactives/2…
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“And beginning in 2007, DEA agents watched as a commercial jetliner from Venezuela’s state-run Conviasa airline flew from Caracas to Tehran via Damascus, Syria, every week with a cargo-hold full of drugs and cash.”

More info here:
news.com.au/travel/travel-…
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@SecPompeo on Wednesday called on countries to deny overflight rights to Mahan Air, an Iranian airline under U.S. sanctions, which he said recently delivered cargoes of “unknown support” to the Maduro regime in Venezuela.
reuters.com/article/us-usa…
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This thread sheds light on Iran’s support for the Maduro regime in Venezuela.
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The most effective method to support the Iranian people in their struggle against the mullahs’ regime is to bring a complete end to the appeasement policy once & for all.

This thread explains why I despise the appeasement policy.
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