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Iran arms groaning under "scarcity of funding" .. And Hezbollah resort to "trick" Hezbollah claimed the lives of many of its members in its activities in the region
According to a report published by the American “billingcat” website, the Lebanese militia Hezbollah has resorted to find new ways to search for sources to finance its sabotage activities in the region.
The website says that the militias are using a number of social media platforms to spread their campaigns and launch fundraising campaigns under the umbrella of charity work.
This comes after Iran's arms in the Middle East have received severe financial blows as a result of the sanctions imposed by the United States on Tehran after withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear agreement.
The militias are looking for solutions to finance themselves after Iranian support, which has been flowing generously, has shrunk over the past decades.
Hezbollah’s militia has managed to build an intercontinental funding network through a number of activities and financial transactions that are difficult to track including smuggling, money Laundering, drugs and others.
Not only did the militia do so, but they looked and are still looking to find other ways to fund their activities and market to their advocates. Therefore, according to the report, it has entered the space of media platforms and social media sites.
Even though the social networking companies have tracked the direct accounts of the organization, Hezbollah has managed to exploit dozens of accounts on the Internet to spread its propaganda claiming resistance and launch fundraising campaigns under the umbrella of charity.
Observers assure that the Coordination, one of such accounts, is a Lebanese militia device through which the party, directly or indirectly, publishes its campaigns and ideas; all of which serve its interests and finance its activities.
The collapse was compounded by the inability of Europe to abide by its commitments to continue normal trade with Tehran to compensate for US sanctions.
According to the American magazine, Iran's economy is expected to contract by about 6 percent this year as the Iranian currency has lost about two-thirds of its value so far.
Trump, who pulled his country out of the nuclear deal in May 2018, sees that the deal was flawed and allowed huge funds to be delivered to Tehran. “We have given them $ 1.8 billion,” he said in a press statement.
Trump says Iran has used the money it got after the deal to spread unrest and support terrorism, but the return of sanctions could force Tehran to review its positions and sit at the negotiations table.
French President Emmanuel Macron recently said he might arrange a meeting between Trump and his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, but Tehran later responded by saying that the president would not sit down with his US counterpart unless Washington lifted sanctions.
