Iran used the cover of the Iranian Red Crescent to smuggle intelligence agents and missiles into Lebanon during the Second Lebanon War in 2006, according to a leaked US embassy cable published on Sunday.
Dated October, 2008, the cable, which originated in Dubai was based on a meeting between a US diplomat and an unnamed source the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) smuggled officers into Lebanon during the 2006 war with Hizbullah under the guise of Red Crescent officials. The source also claimed, according to the cable, that medical supplies were used to facilitated weapons shipments.
“He [the source] said that Iranian Red Crescent had seen missiles in the planes destined for Lebanon when delivering medical supplies to the plane. The plane was allegedly ‘half full’ prior to the arrival of any medical supplies,” the cable read.
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Dated October, 2008, the cable, which originated in Dubai was based on a meeting between a US diplomat and an unnamed source the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) smuggled officers into Lebanon during the 2006 war with Hizbullah under the guise of Red Crescent officials. The source also claimed, according to the cable, that medical supplies were used to facilitated weapons shipments.
“He [the source] said that Iranian Red Crescent had seen missiles in the planes destined for Lebanon when delivering medical supplies to the plane. The plane was allegedly ‘half full’ prior to the arrival of any medical supplies,” the cable read.
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This is the type of information Israel desperately wants Americans to have in order to convince us of the need to exterminate all Non-Jewish people in the Middle East.
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