‘Iran cut Hezbollah aid due to sanctions’

Source: middleeast war and peace
‘Iran cut Hezbollah aid due to sanctions’

Iran has been forced to slash aid to the Lebanese Hezbollah because Tehran is being squeezed by international sanctions over its nuclear programme, a newspaper reported on Thursday

The English-language Jerusalem Post said recent Israeli intelligence assessments had concluded Iran had cut annual funding to Hezbollah by more than 40 percent, causing a crisis within the militant militia. Iran had been providing Hezbollah with a billion dollars a year in direct military aid, with the funds being used to buy weapons and invest in training, the report alleged.

Iran is deemed to be the ideological and financial backer of the Shia movement, which fought a devastating war against Israel in

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