U.S. Claims Iran Is Spending $1 Billion A Year Backing Hizballah, Other Allies
(WorldNews Iran)

The United States is claiming that Iran spends nearly $1 billion a year providing support to Hizballah, Hamas, and other allied militant groups in the Middle East. U.S. Ambassador Nathan Sales, a coordinator for counterterrorism at the Department of State, told reporters in Washington late on November 13 that Iran spends about $700 million a year on Hizballah, the Lebanese militia that has fought wars with Israel and has provided critical support to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his seven-year civil war against Sunni rebels. In addition, Sales said Tehran gives Hamas, the militant Palestinian group that...