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Israeli DM: Iran Smuggling Arms to Hezbollah

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JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said Israel will not allow Iran to arm Hezbollah, its Lebanese-based proxy, within advanced weaponry.

The defense minister's remarks followed a report Saturday by al Jazeera saying Israeli aircraft targeted a Syrian missile base near the Lebanese border where long-range missiles were stored.

Israeli security sources quoted by YNet say the attack near the border with Lebanon was carried out by rebel forces fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

"We will not allow the transfer of quality weapons to terror organizations, chief among them Hezbollah, and we will know how to reach those who send them at any time and any place," Ya'alon said at a ceremony marking Israeli Independence Day at the Defense Ministry's Tel Aviv headquarters, The Jerusalem Post reported.

The IDF spokesman neither affirmed nor denied the report, saying Israel doesn't "comment on foreign reports." 

Ya'alon also said Iran is trying to help Hamas and other terror organizations in the Gaza Strip rebuild their military. He said Israel will not allow weapons smuggling by land or sea nor would it tolerate rocket fire on its citizenry.

He also said Iran's recent actions in Yemen against a pro-western regime was more proof of its efforts to deceive the world.

The deal being formulated between Iran and the P5+1, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany provides "the Iranian regime with breathing space and international legitimacy."

"Instead of making things harder for Iran until it stops its nuclear program, the West is allowing it to come back, through the main door, to the family of nations, to be a nuclear threshold state and to continue to spread terrorism through the whole world, including in the countries of the free world, while publicly calling for Israel to be erased from the map," Ya'alon said.

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