Iran said to have cut Hizbullah aid by 40%

jpost.com ^ | 12/15/10 | YAAKOV KATZ

[Nachum]

Terror organization faces unprecedented crisis, according to Israeli intelligence assessments, stirring tension with its Iranian patrons.

Iran has cut the annual budget it provides Hizbullah by over 40 percent, stirring an unprecedented crisis within the Lebanese Shi’ite guerrilla organization.

This comes, according to recent Israeli intelligence assessments, just weeks before a United Nations tribunal is expected to accuse Hizbullah of assassinating former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri in 2005.

[allmost]

That seems like an odd headline.

[JPG]

The rat congress can allocate the funds for Hezbollah...Reid and Pelosi will get right on it.

[Noamie]

“Women and minorities hit hardest®”

[FreeAtlanta]

The recession/depression is hitting even the terrorists.

[SunkenCiv]

Iran's peace offensive, China's changing role:

• Assange To Walk Free After Bail Upheld
• Wikileaks and "World without Zionism" logos are strikingly similar
• Middle East: Arab media play down WikiLeaks reports of support for Iran war
• Egypt and 18 other countries to miss Nobel ceremony
• Chinese furious at (Australian) military build-up (Wikileaks)
• Iran not a rogue state: Australia
• The "Palestinian" Arabs and the Forgotten Iranian Arabs
• Rehabilitation center opens in Kabul with help of Iran

additional:

• Syria to Iran: We won't attack Israel in retaliatory strike
• Wikileaks: Kouchner warns 'prepare for war' with Iran
• Iran Threat to Kill American Generals Is Real, Experts Say

nukes, stuxnet

• Iran not a rogue state: Australia [Iran nukes for deterrence]
• A defiant Iran announces it has begun mining its own uranium
• North Korea and Iran cooperated on nuclear weapon development: Defector
• IRAN: Ahmadinejad blames attacks against nuclear scientists on 'Zionist dogs'
• 'Stuxnet virus set back Iran's nuclear program by 2 years'
• Stuxnet Virus Driving Iranian Nuclear Program Right Into the Ground
• Stuxnet Worm Still Out of Control at Iran's Nuclear Sites, Experts Say
• Cyber Espionage Just Got A Lot More Serious
• Microsoft to patch stuxnet

internal political shifts:

• Iran mosque bombing kills dozens
• 'Bomb attack' targets Iran city of Chabahar
• Iranian students burn Koran
• Iranian Students Stage Protests
• Wikileaks Exposes Iran's Secret Revenge on Iraqi Pilots For 1980s War

external political shifts:

• New Canadian Government Report - Ahmadinejad's Iran: A Threat to Peace, Human Rights & Int'l Law
• In Iran, a Christian pastor faces death sentence
• Iran's Other War (against the Bahais)
• Eye for an eye: Iranian man sentenced to have drops of acid poured onto his face...
• Iran hangs former soccer player's mistress
• Imprisoned Iranian Ayatollah Offers Hanukkah Greetings to Jews

Cardinal Richelieu rolls over in his grave:

• Helplessly Hoping (0's Foreign Policy Incompetance is Now Frightening)
• Hillary Clinton's humiliation by Iran's Foreign Minister illustrates the futility of appeasement
• Iranian foreign minister shakes hands with senior U.S. official... but dodges Hillary Clinton
• Clinton snubbed by Iranian foreign minister ["I said 'Hello, minister.' He just turned away."]
• Iran's president fires foreign minister
• How Sanctions Can Work With Iran (Michael Rubin)
• Jimmy Carter: Sanctions Against Iran Will Have Opposite Affec

Monroe Doctrine:

• Southern Border Chessboard Involves Iran/Venezuela/Russia
• Why Latin America turned [Must read: Obama's policies' effect on our neighbors]
• Possible Iranian military move...in this hemisphere:
• Iran Placing Medium-Range Missiles in Venezuela; Can Reach the U.S.
• German Media: Iran Is Stockpiling Shahab 3 Missiles in Venezuela That Can Reach US

Thanks Nachum.

[SJackson]

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[Valin]

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