1 day Ago By The Straits Times
In what must count as one of the more extraordinary acts of sabotage of all time, as many as 2,800 people, including hundreds of Hezbollah officials, were injured and several killed across Lebanon on Sept 17, according to the country’s Health Ministry, when the pagers they use to communicate exploded. Somebody transformed the devices into bombs before their distribution, and the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon was among those wounded. It isn’t as if another smoking gun was needed to establish Iran’s deep integration with members of the so-called arc of resistance it has built around Israel – from Hezbollah and Hamas to the Houthis of Yemen and the Shi’ite militias in Iraq and Syria.
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