Hezbollah Politician Boasts That ‘It Would Take A Mere 9 Billion Dollars To Obliterate Israel’

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A Hezbollah political leader announced Saturday that it would take “a mere $9 billion to obliterate the State of Israel.”

Mohammed Raad, the head of the Hezbollah parliamentary bloc in the Lebanese parliament said that “The resistance only needs $9 billion and there will be nothing left called Israel in the region,” in what was probably a reference to Iran. Hezbollah is heavily funded by Iran and is the Shiite country’s main terror proxy in the region.

France has outlawed Hezbollah’s military wing yet continues to block a full terror designation of Hezbollah within the EU. Meanwhile the US, the Arab League, Germany, Japan, Canada, Austria, the United Kingdom, and many other European and Latin American countries classify Hezbollah’s entire organization as a foreign terrorist movement.

Raad also recently accused the US of being responsible for Lebanon’s economic woes:

“What bankrupted the Lebanese and plunged them into the latest economic and financial crisis is the U.S. domination, which wanted to besiege the resistance and failed to do so,” Raad said, according to Lebanese news site Naharnet.

“It then sought to besiege all state institutions, which could not bear the siege, so they collapsed and became a burden on people, our resistant environment and the resistance,” he added.

“Some people say that those who don’t communicate with the Americans are not worthy of living in this country, but we won’t communicate nor talk with the Americans, and we have the right to defend our existence against those threatening it,” said Raad.

In response to Raad’s comments in early April, Michael Young, an expert on Lebanon, tweeted “What bankrupted Lebanon was a vampirical, kleptocratic political class that Hezbollah has been defending, at times through violence, since the protests of 2019. Mohammed Raad is not going to fool anyone about this.”