Iran’s supreme leader: Set Israel on fire
02/03/2013 02:12
LONDON – The Iranian regime’s genocidal threats toward Israel and the European
Union’s failure to list Hezbollah as a terrorist organization shaped many of the
panel discussions at a one-day conference in London last week on “Iran and the
international community.”
It is a “very bad thing that Hezbollah can
operate in Europe regarding fund-raising and logistics,” US Ambassador Daniel
Benjamin, a former coordinator for counterterrorism at the State Department in
the first Obama administration, said. Hezbollah’s legal status in the EU
“undermines security goals,” he said.
“If you want to put a dent in
Hezbollah activities, it would be a positive thing” to outlaw the Lebanese
group, and an EU terror “designation would be a blow to Hezbollah’s legitimacy,”
Benjamin said.