Hizbullah: Iran's Six Million Dollar Man

Iran is building Hizbullah to be bigger, badder, and stronger than ever before. They're in the process of arming Hizbullah with even more deadly rockets and missiles that are capable of hitting Central or Southern Israel, which pretty much puts all of Israel's major population centers in harm's way.

"Hizbullah will never leave southern Lebanon. It is arming with missiles that could hit central and even southern Israel," Transportation Minister and former Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns, in a meeting in Washington, DC, on Wednesday.


Mofaz is participating in routine bilateral strategic talks with the United States, leading an Israeli team that includes the director-generals of the Foreign Ministry, the Defense Ministry and the National Security Council, as well as the chairman of the Atomic Energy Council.

When Hizbullah launches such rockets, there will be no place safe from those attacks.

Way to go UNIFIL. Your job was to disarm Hizbullah, and all you've done is watch as Syria and Iran make Hizbullah an even worse threat than before.

The Lebanese military report that they intercepted a Hizbullah weapons shipment, that included rockets and ammo.

The shipment of Grad rockets and ammunition for automatic rifles and machine guns was seized late Tuesday at a random army checkpoint near the town of Baalbek, a stronghold for the Shiite Muslim militant group.

Six Hizbullah members in the truck were let go but the confiscated weapons were taken to army barracks nearby.

UPDATE:
Iran isn't forgetting about the Taliban either. NATO has captured Iranian weapons shipped to the Taliban in Afghanistan and shows that Iran and others are not simply content to talk - they're actively fighting:

NATO officials say they have caught Iran red-handed, shipping heavy arms, C4 explosives and advanced roadside bombs to the Taliban for use against NATO forces, in what the officials say is a dramatic escalation of Iran's proxy war against the United States and Great Britain.

"It is inconceivable that it is anyone other than the Iranian government that's doing it," said former White House counterterrorism official Richard Clarke, an ABC News consultant.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stopped short earlier this week of blaming Iran, saying the U.S. did not have evidence "of the involvement of the Iranian government in support of the Taliban."

But an analysis by a senior coalition official, obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com, concludes there is clear evidence of Iran's involvement.

"This is part of a considered policy," says the analysis, "rather than the result of low-level corruption and weapons smuggling."

Iran and the Taliban had been fierce enemies when the Taliban was in power in Afghanistan, and their apparent collaboration came as a surprise to some in the intelligence community.

"I think their goal is to make it very clear that Iran has the capability to make life worse for the United States on a variety of fronts," said Seth Jones of the Rand Institute, "even if they have to do some business with a group that has historically been their enemy."

The coalition analysis says munitions recovered in two Iranian convoys, on April 11 and May 3, had "clear indications that they originated in Iran. Some were identical to Iranian supplied goods previously discovered in Iraq."