Two weeks ago, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that Iran was sending a ship of fuel to Lebanon in order to help that country's massive fuel shortages.
The Lebanese government had already said last year they would not accept shipments of any kind from Iran, fearful that the US would extend sanctions on them. Nasrallah's bright idea - first broached in June - was a direct challenge to the Lebanese government, as he said then, “Shipments of fuel will arrive at Beirut’s port, and let the state prevent their access to Lebanon.”
Now, Iran has announced that the ship has reached the territorial waters of its destination - Syria!
The first Iranian oil tanker that carries fuel for Lebanon has arrived in Syrian waters, Lebanese newspaper reported.Hezbollah will transfer fuel from Syria into Lebanon?
According to Al-Akhbar, the tanker has entered the Syrian waters on Wednesday and will discharge the shipment in one of the Syrian ports, and then the fuel will be transferred to Lebanon by tanker trucks.
The report said the shipment of the second and third tankers will also be delivered to Lebanon through the same mechanism.
That's funny, because part of the reason for the fuel crisis to begin with was because Hezbollah was smuggling Lebanese fuel into Syria earlier this year!
Hezbollah sold the fuel for huge markups in the Syrian black market to fund its own terror operations. Social media in Syria and Lebanon too photos of the fuel trucks going into Syria.
Now that Lebanese are as desperate for fuel as Syrians were in May, Hezbollah is asking Iran for fuel at regular prices so they can now make money in the reverse direction and take massive profits - while claiming to be saving Lebanon.
The Lebanese people aren't fooled by Nasrallah's faux altruism. They know he is a reason they are in such bad economic shape to begin with.
