IDF: Lebanon Has Become One Large Iranian Missile Factory 

IDF Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Ronen Manelis has warned that “Lebanon has become – both by its own actions and omissions and by a blind eye from many members of the international community – one large missile factory,” reports Anna Ahronheim for the Jerusalem Post.

Writing on the Lebanese opposition website Ahewar on Sunday, he noted that Hizbullah has built “terror infrastructure and factories to manufacture weapons under the nose of the Lebanese government. The past year has been further proof that Hizbullah serves as an operational arm of Iran. In every place where there was instability, we discovered the fingerprint of Iran and everywhere we discovered Hizbullah’s involvement.”

Some 200 villages in south Lebanon have been turned into “military strongholds.” “The ordinary [Lebanese] citizen will be mistaken to think that this process turns Lebanon into a fortress. It is nothing more than a barrel of gunpowder on which he, his family, and his property are sitting….The future of Lebanese citizens is in the hands of a dictator who sits in Tehran. I think it is right to warn the residents of Lebanon of the Iranian game in their security and in their future.”