The Israeli Navy boarded a German ship based in Cyprus headed to Syria from Iran that contained 500 tons of weapons. The weapons, likely destined to Hezbollah officials, filled 40 of the 300 shipping containers on the Francop, flying the Antigua flag.
“In a random check of the containers we found a variety of weaponry camouflaged as civilian goods,” Gen. Ben Yehuda said. “Clearly these weapons are for terror purposes. There is no doubt they came from Iran, and were headed through Syria to Hezbollah.”
Hezbollah officials in Beirut refused to comment on the Israeli allegations. A spokesman for the Iranian mission to the United Nations in New York also had no comment. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moalim called the Israeli commandos “pirates” and denied the ship was carrying weapons in televised comments made during a visit to Tehran on Tuesday.
Clearly the Mossad is doing its job, as the weapons stopped before getting into terrorist hands. However, the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah axis is very dangerous for Israel and is well equiped for another Lebanon-Israel war.
Read the whole story at the Wall Street Journal.
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