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Israel: Iran giving Hizbullah $100 million per year HERZLIYA, Israel Iran has supplied missiles and financing to Hizbullah and Palestinian insurgency groups. Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Iran provides Hizbullah with $100 million per year. Mofaz said Hizbullah relayed $10 million of the Iranian funding to Islamic Jihad in 2005. In 2004, Jihad was said to have received $5 million. "Some of the aid is directed to Palestinian organizations," Mofaz told the Herzliya Conference on Jan. 21. "Iran is the sole financier of Islamic Jihad." [On Jan. 20, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met leaders of Hizbullah and Palestinian insurgency groups during his visit to Damascus. Ahmadinejad pledged to support the Palestinian war against Israel.] Over the past few years, Iran also supplied Hizbullah with two medium-range rockets to Lebanon. Mofaz cited the Fajr-7 and Fajr-5 rockets. The 333-mm Fajr-5 has a range of 75 kilometers. The Fajr-7 has a range of 100 kilometers. Iran has been marketing the Fajr to African and Middle East countries. Mofaz said the Fajr-7 and Fajr-5 rockets could strike targets in much of Israel. Both rockets have been deployed by Hizbullah in southern Lebanon. The defense minister said Iran's nuclear weapons program and support to Hizbullah and other insurgency groups threaten the world. He said that "for now" Israel would rely on the U.S.-led diplomatic effort to pressure Iran to suspend its nuclear weapons program. "Our assessment is that 2006 is not a year of decision but a year of transition," Mofaz said. "Regarding the foiling of the Iranian nuclear program, it is at the top of our priorities. Israel can't accept Iranian nuclear capability and must develop capability to defend itself, with all that this entails. And this is what we prepare for." Mofaz and other senior officials did not rule out additional Israeli unilateral withdrawals from the West Bank. In September 2005, Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank, expelling 10,000 Jewish residents. National Security Council Director Giora Eiland said the international community expects Israel to return to the 1967 borders, help establish a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and enable a link between the two areas that would run through the Jewish state. "They want to us to return to a more complex situation," Eiland said. "They want a link between Gaza Strip and West Bank that affects Israeli sovereignty." -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
