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| US Threatens To End Aid To Lebanon If Iran Sends Arms |
| 2014-10-12 |
| [IsraelTimes] The US threatened to cut off all aid to Leb should Beirut accept an Iranian offer of military aid, a Lebanese newspaper reported Friday. Citing an anonymous official, Al Akhbar reported that Washington warned Leb against accepting a small arms shipment from Tehran, which the US said would breach sanctions against the Islamic Theocratic Republic. Iran says the arms are meant to help Beirut combat Sunni bully boys. According to Al Akhbar, Iran offered to send the Lebanese army TOW (anti-tank) missiles and launchers, night goggles, 120mm and 60mm mortar shells, ammunition for T55 and T62 tanks, and Doshka machine-guns and ammunition. In the past several months, the US has provided the Lebanese Armed Forces with $19 million in military aid to help it combat Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... forces along the Syrian border, and an additional $103.8 million to help cope with refugees from Syria. Lebanese Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk recently told The Wall Street Journal that Washington would give Beirut almost $150 million in military and security gear. In 2013, the US provided Leb with roughly $80 million in military aid, including much of the arms Iran recently offered. According to the White House, the US provides approximately 75% of Leb's international security assistance. Part of the US's reluctance to allow Iran to provide the Lebanese Army with arms may stem from Washington's concern that the weapons could pass into the hands of Hezbollah. Until recently Iran has provided the Shiite militia in Leb with arms through Syria, but the three year civil war has largely prevented Tehran from transferring military equipment through that route. Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy operating in Leb, praised the Islamic Theocratic Republic's offer to provide Leb with aid to combat the Islamic State, which both the Lebanese army and the Shiite militia are fighting. "If we want to speak realistically and sincerely, the Islamic Theocratic Republicof Iran's gift to the Lebanese army in this sensitive stage of fight against the murderous Moslems is timely," Iran's Fars news agency quoted the head of Hezbollah's Executive Council Seyed Hashem Safiaddin saying last week. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 POTUS Obama + Globalists desires each Continet-based OWG Global Fed Union to be headed by one or more "US-style" "Co-Superpowers", of which Shia Iran is one. At minima, this means Iran needs ... > Nuclear Arms - both Tactical + Strategic. > Potent expanding National Economy. > Ability to project Pol, Mil, + Econ power OTH anywhere around the world, or at least simualtaneously to two or more "near-abroad" outside regions. Ability to unilaterally deny strategic access as well as unilaterally force open strategic access ["A2/Area-Denial"]. > National Military-industrial Complex that can reliably or routinely support the above. Personally, I'm interpeting this Artic as Globalist POTUS Obama indirectly supporting the Globie agenda as per IRAN. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-10-12 23:36 |
| #1 US Threatens To End There. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-10-12 10:38 |