S8 Ep233: PREVIEW HEZBOLLAH REARMAMENT FUNDED BY IRAN AND SMUGGLING TUNNELS Colleague Jonathan Schanzer. Jonathan Schanzer, from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, details Hezbollah's rearmament, funded primarily by Iran with some Turkish and Qatari inv
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
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| 0:37.2 | This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Jonathan Shanzat, the executive director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, |
| 0:43.2 | Hezbollah's reawakening, re-arming, getting ready for the next and the next and the next battle. |
| 0:44.3 | Who's paying? |
| 0:46.3 | Follow the money. Here Jonathan names the suspects and especially identifies how they were working beforehand, |
| 0:53.0 | the smuggling of major weapon systems into Lebanon. |
| 0:57.5 | More of this tonight. |
| 0:59.6 | The Turks are providing some weapons and some cash. |
| 1:04.4 | The Qataris are also, they apparently are working with some factions in Lebanon, primarily the Sunni ones, as I understand it, which is curious. |
| 1:15.3 | But the Iranians are still the ones that are providing the vast majority of the weapons and cash. |
| 1:20.2 | This is a huge concern. |
| 1:22.0 | It's also interesting to note, John, that in Syria, they have uncovered massive tunnels built by the Iranians that were used |
| 1:30.1 | for smuggling of weapons. The amount of tunneling that has taken place inside Lebanon, inside |
| 1:36.3 | Syria that the Iranians are responsible for, it's staggering. Add that to the tunnels that we've |
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