Good catch on the MB and UN operation in Lebanon.
For some reason, a lot of European drugs flow through the ME, and the couriers just do not seem too concerned about the mullahs intervening.
That is usually a good sign that state security is getting their cut faithfully.
An edifying fictional interrogation of a somali skinny who was paid to not steal a ship in Red Sea so it could carry terrorists into Texas. (Not Iranian in this case, but illustrates how the allah snackbars could work together).
The dope flows through ME as you say and the mullahs get their cut (sort of like the moonshiners making sure the local churchs got their cut- everyone’s mouth shut). As you say state security gets their cut and some has to make it to the mullahs.
A “gosh, wish this might have happened”: Sicario: Day of the Soldado How did the ship get to Mexico (like how do Camaroonians end up crossing our border if not sponsored by dopers- heroin or otherwise.
(”You’re fight is with ISIS not me”) Yemen just across the Gulf....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUbfGwY4Fco