Russian Group Might Supply Hezbollah With Air-Defense System: Report | Eastern NC Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Hank Berrien.

    U.S. intelligence is stating that the Wagner Group, the Russian paramilitary organization, may try to give an air-defense system to the terrorist group Hezbollah, situated on Israel's northern border, according to The Wall Street Journal.

    The Russian SA-22 system can fire antiaircraft missiles and air-defense guns.

    "Wagner has personnel in Syria, where Hezbollah fighters have also been present," the Journal noted.

    Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in 2008 that "Israel will be destroyed in a few years." In 2020, he said, "When Khomeini declared Al Quds Day in 1979, it was a culmination point of his personal struggle against Israel, which he began addressing in 1960. Khamenei was restating the position of Najaf and Qom regarding Palestine, a position that remains a consistent position until the present. This position is that Palestine from river to sea must be liberated. Israel has no legitimacy to exist at all and must be destroyed."

    Russian and Hezbollah forces fought together to support the Assad regime in Syria. In November 2018, the U.S. Department of the Treasury noted that the Iranian regime, working with Russian companies, was supplying millions of barrels of oil to the Syrian government led by the Assad regime, which then facilitated the movement of hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars (USD) to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) for onward transfer to HAMAS and Hezbollah.

    A letter to a senior official at the Central Bank of Iran confirmed $63 million had been sent to benefit Hezbollah, the Royal United Services Institute, the world's oldest and the U.K.'s leading defense and security think tank, reported last May, adding:

    In May 2022, the Treasury Department issued designations targeting this same Hizbullah-IRGC-Qods Force oil smuggling network, and noted that these sanctions evasion schemes which were funding both Hizbullah and the IRGC-Qods Force were "backed by senior levels of the Russian Federation government and state-run economic organs."


    In late October, Nir Barkat, Israel's Minister of Economy, warned Iran that Israel would strike back if Hezbollah entered the war. He said that not only would Israel "eliminate Hezbollah," Israel would "actually target Iran" and "wipe them out."

    "The plan of Iran is to attack Israel on all fronts. If we find they intend to target Israel, we will not just retaliate to those fronts, but we will go to the head of the snake, which is Iran," he said. "The Ayatollahs in Iran are not going to sleep good at night, we are going to make sure they pay a heavy price if, God forbid, they open the northern front."
poll#209

In the minds of many, since January 20, 2021, the World has become far less safe in every theater of conflict, beginning with the attack of Israel by Iran /Hamas, so the question becomes: What caused this Worldwide calamity of extreme geopolitical dysfunction, and what will correct it?

  Joe Biden is the cause of this frightening Worldwide situation, and it will end when a Republican is elected president.

  This delayed Worldwide dysfunction and constant conflict is all Donald Trump's fault, as it is with everything that occurs going forward, and long before the man ever became the 45th president..

  Joe Biden is the "root cause" of this frightening Worldwide situation, and it will end when former President Donald John Trump is elected president.

  In the imitable words of Alfred E. Newman: "What, me worry?"

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poll#211

26 days after the October 7th Terror attacks on Israel, where over 1400 Jewish men, women and children were gruesomely murdered, and hundreds more made hostage: Should the Biden /Harris administration finally state that the administration's primary Middle East negotiating partner, Iran, is behind the funding and strategy of the aggressors, the Hamas Terrorists, or continue to take the more moderate position of "Don't," which is clearly not working?

  Yes, name Iran as the funding /strategy culprit, and begin to enforce the President Trump era sanctions to END Iran's ability to prosecute this war against Israel and the United States.

  No, Iran is a valuable partner in the motives of the Biden / Harris administration, and must not be named as the culprit and our enemy.

  I have larger concerns just to survive in this economy.

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