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Then an article about the real owner of the ship that carried the ammonian nitrate (2013) to a Hezbullah bank in Cyprus, and finally an old WikiLeaks leak from 2010 from Stratfor think tank.

Regarding the first, it was through unnamed western intellegence sources. 5/
Sources that not only were unnamed, but happen to have connected the shipment to Iran. Hezbullah somehow bought the shipment from Iran, contrary to what the old and current narrative is of Hezbullah being bankrolled and supplied free by Iran.

The shipment came through Syria.6/
Please keep it mind how this shipment came from Syria because we'll need this piece of data later one.

Now kindly read what the German newspaper said. To discuss.7/ https://t.co/GjTRTbR0cr
Aside from the absurd claim that Hezbullah who is bankrolled by Iran is now paying Iran for ammonium nitrate, and how they made sure to subliminally connect the substance to the Beirut explosion, they made the mistake of claiming they had access to paper proof of this deal.8/
Having paper proof of shipment will be a bold claim that they, the western intellegence, had spies and informants in IRGC and Hezbullah who have access to such papers

That aside, the mere existence of a receipt is weird. Why would Iran sell Hezbullah and produce a receipt.9/
That aside, Hezbullah and Iran don't deal with banks. So the transaction was done by cash. Now we are back at the same delimma of Iran sending Hezbullah cash in pallets only to get them back in the form of purchase. Amazingly in Euro.

That's all superficial questions.10/
What actually contradicts, is their claim of having a paper that talks about the shipment but end up saying words like"the paper says it arrived from Syria or by sea" or "is believed" and "likely an Iranain private jet". 11/
If anything this tells us one thing. They have custom receipts that can be found online at the custom's import and export section on their website.

The papers clearly doesn't mention how they got here and for who!

They actually said that themselves.12/ https://t.co/SccC1AFHZD
They actually just built a case, assuming that those shipments are for Hezbullah. That's simply it.

And yet again the same name appears again, the millionaire Mr. Mohammed Qasir, the brother of the first martyrdom operation against the IDF in 1982. 13/ https://t.co/rLvF1W8BWO
And yet again they said "was believed". They simply do not have proof nor did the intellegence have proof. That's how things have been since Qasir's name became public.

You'll find his name in every article that connects Hezbullah to a certain Iranain Syrian Hezbullah deal.14/
Qasir got the legacy of being the middle man, and the head of Hezbullah's transportation unit after he was seen with the Iranain president, Syrian president, and Qassem Soleimani. Weird place to sit I've got to say

His work could be true, but there is no proof to connect him.15/ https://t.co/CvytnmRprg
So unless anyone thinks this article is proof of Hezbullah importing ammonium nitrate from Iran with money it got from Iran, I'll move on. 16/
The second article talks about how a Hezbullah bank in Tanzania/Cyprus is connected to the true owner of the ship carrying the 2,750 ton of ammonium nitrate.

I fully covered this in another thread, feel fee to read it. It refuted that claim too: /17 https://news.1rj.ru/str/nauala/4894
And now I move to the WikiLeaks claim. (Email from 2010 but leaked in 2013)

The WikiLeaks claim, technically not WikiLeaks claiming, is a leaked think tank email by Ben West from Stratfor qouting his sources in Lebanon, that happen to be from 14 March. 18/ https://t.co/5osqMf3NPd
This is the WikiLeaks email. Kindly read it before I continue: https://t.co/9yv1JYUylT 19/ https://t.co/hW9CoSD4vz
After you read it you'd know that it talks about Hezbullah needing to buy Ammonium nitrate because Syria, who is now trying to control Hezbullah, is not sending / allowing Hezbullah to get any military grade explosives. So now Hezbullah is forced to use unstable explosives. 20/