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Breaking: Huge if proven true... WELT reporting Iran's Qods Force shipped Ammonium Nitrate to #Hezbollah in Beirut in 2013-2014. Three shipments were reportedly sent via airport, sea port and overland, totaling 630-670 tons of ammonium nitrate. welt.de/politik/auslan…
The #Hezbollah procurement agent who coordinated the shipment, according to WELT, was Mohamad Qasir. For full background on Qasir & Hezbollah's weapons procurement channels, see my @CTCWP piece here washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…
For more on Qasir, his @USTreasury designation, and #Hezbollah weapons procurement, check out relevant entries in Hezbollah Select Worldwide Activity map washingtoninstitute.org/hezbollahinter…
To be clear, story does not tie this purported effort to procure ammonium nitrate to the 2,750 tons of ammonium-nitrate that blew up earlier this month. There's still that part of the mystery
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