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To: RetiredNow who wrote (269636)	1/22/2006 10:02:29 AM
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Iran Allocates Over $100 Million for Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad 13:03 Jan 22, '06 / 22 Tevet 5766 By Nissan Ratzlav-Katz The Lebanese-based terror organization Hizbullah is supported by Iran to the tune of US$100 million per year. $10 million also made its way last year from Iran to the Islamic Jihad. The data on Iranian support for Lebanese and Palestinian Authority-based terrorist organizations was revealed by Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz Saturday night, in a lecture he delivered at the annual Herzliya Conference. Mofaz noted that on Friday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held talks in Damascus with representatives of Hizbullah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine during a visit he paid to Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad. Mofaz called Assad and Ahmadinejad "representatives of the Axis of Evil," saying that their meeting was "a summit for terror." Ahmadinejad made the trip to Syria, according to the defense minister, "to be sure that the terrorism against Israel would not slow down for a moment, and would even increase." In this regard, Mofaz said that Iran supports public relations efforts for the Hizbullah, supplies the organization with weapons and funds its activities with about US$100 million per year. Part of that sum also makes its way to terrorists in the Palestinian Authority, Mofaz said. In addition, Iran separately funded the PA-based Islamic Jihad with $10 million in 2005. This figure, the defense minister noted, is twice the Iranian budget allocation for in 2004. Most recently, Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing on Thursday in south Tel Aviv, in which 30 people were injured, and for a rocket it claimed was fired at Ashkelon on Saturday. "The regime of the president of Iran Ahmadinejad supports terrorism in the Middle East through the supply of rockets that threaten population centers in this country, sends money for terrorism, and supplies training and know-how to the Middle Eastern [terror] organizations," Defense Minister Mofaz said. Addressing comments to the Iranian leader, Mofaz, who was himself born in Iran, warned, "It would be to your benefit to take a look at history and see what became of those who tried to exterminate the Jewish people. I know the Iranian people - and more than a little - and a large part of it does not recognize its leader's opinions." In addition, Defense Minister Mofaz stated that Israel will not tolerate Iran completing its nuclear reactor, as Tehran continues nuclear enrichment efforts. Israel, Mofaz said, "must be prepared to defend itself, with all that that implies." In that regard, he added, "An international effort must be promoted against Iran, which supports terrorism and denies the Holocaust."