Posted on 09/30/2014 8:26:38 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Iran is to give a military grant to the Lebanese Army, the head of Iran's national security council said on Sept. 30, boosting security forces that are already backed by Saudi Arabia and the United States.
The Lebanase Army has been stepping up efforts to prevent Sunni Muslim fighters from Syria entering Lebanese border towns. Last month, the northern town of Arsal was the scene of the deadliest spillover of fighting in the three-year-old civil war in Syria.
The rise of hardline militants in Syria such as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) presents a shared foe for Shi'ite Iran and its enemies, Sunni Saudi Arabia and the United States.
"The Islamic Republic decided to give a military grant to the Lebanese Army," Supreme National Security Council Director Ali Shamkhani told reporters in Beirut.
He did not say what the grant would include. A diplomatic source said the Iranian defence minister would soon ask his Lebanese counterpart for a list of weapons needed by the army.
Shamkhani is meeting Lebanese officials, including the Prime Minister Tamman Salam and Speaker Nabih Berri.
Sunni Muslim militants in Syria and their allies in Lebanon accuse the Lebanese army of working with Hezbollah, the Iranian-funded Shi'ite movement that has sent fighters to help Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
Sounds like the kiss of death to me.
I'll be in my bunk.
We need to get Iran to fight for us. Give them what they want. They hate Sunni wahhabis and will wipe them out in a week with their 500,000 MAN army and huge air force. They are arming their Shiite brothers in Lebanon. What have the Shiite done to this country in the last 10 yrs. Why are we stereotyping totally different people into the wahhabi Sunnis THEY HATE?
time to elminate the Iran threat!
Son of a gun! The Lesbians have got an army?
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think it was Rodney Dangerfield(?) that had a routine, the gist of it being...
Met this girl in a bar and we really seemed to hit it off.
After a while she said “I am sorry, but I must tell you I am a lesbian”.
To which Rodney(?) replied,
“So how are things in Beirut these days”?
I think I heard it on Carson....
pretty risque for those days.....
BUT
not as risky as today...<: <: <:
They want nuclear weapons.
So what you’re telling me, that Obama allows Iraq to build their nuclear weapons and take control of Syria and Iraq while we sit back and watch? What is next, Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria taken over by Iran?
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