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Iran, Hezbollah implicated in Ireland’s largest drug bust
JNS ^ | 07.09.25

Posted on 07/09/2025 10:39:07 PM PDT by Words Matter

The trial of two Iranians and six others, who tried to smuggle 2.2 tons of cocaine to the island, exposed networks spanning the Middle East and Venezuela. JNS Staff. July 9, 2025 / JNS) An Irish court on July 4 sentenced two Iranian nationals in connection with a transnational drug trafficking operation involving more than 2.2 tons of cocaine, as authorities investigate suspected links to Hezbollah and the Iranian regime, Irish media reported.

The men—Soheil Jelveh, 51, a former captain of the cargo vessel MV Matthew, and Saied Hassani, 39, a senior officer with significant maritime experience—received sentences of 17.5 and 15 years, respectively, for drug trafficking. They were among eight people sentenced on Friday to a combined 129 years in prison, The Irish Examiner reported.

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Duquesne Scholarship Collection. Hezbollah Operations in the Tri-Border Area of South America by N Kleck · 2011 — ... Latin America and the Caribbean for sexual and labor exploitation. Women and children are trafficked internationally for forced prostitution and sex tourism... https://dsc.duq.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1771&context=etd

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How Hezbollah Fundraises Through Crime. 2 Jul 2024. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/07/02/how-hezbollah-fundraises-through-crime/

Hezbollah's Networks in Latin America. 12 Mar 2025 — Several countries in the region—including Argentina, Colom- bia, Honduras, and Paraguay—have formally designated. Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PEA3500/PEA3585-1/RAND_PEA3585-1.pdf

1 posted on 07/09/2025 10:39:07 PM PDT by Words Matter
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To: Words Matter

,,, long sentences for the Irish taxpayers to keep these sub humans behind bars. Each of the guilty should have a kilogram of marching powder rammed down their throats and top them up with roast pork and gin. Cruel but fair.


2 posted on 07/09/2025 10:55:51 PM PDT by shaggy eel (A long way south of the border.)
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To: Words Matter

Irish liberals have decided Ireland is the cesspool for every turd world turd to deposit their turds on the nation. The Irish leadership, including the Finn Seinn commie f s have done it just to poke the eye of white Irish and English. Damn the Irish leadership. My Celtic blood is boiling.


3 posted on 07/09/2025 11:18:37 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Organic Panic

“We Ourselves” are absolute scumbags.


4 posted on 07/09/2025 11:27:07 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Uncle Sugar" is being audited and having an enema.)
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To: Words Matter

...At a press conference held at Haulbowline Naval Base, the assistant police commissioner, Angela Willis, said it was “reasonable to assume” some involvement by the Kinahan cartel, a major Irish transnational organized crime syndicate. She described the broader operation as involving “multiple criminal networks,” including transnational entities with links to the Middle East..../snip


5 posted on 07/10/2025 1:38:13 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: Words Matter

Christopher Kinahan (Christy Jnr) – younger son of Christy Kinahan, is wanted by the US Department of State, which offers a reward of up to US$5 million for information leading to his arrest or conviction for participating in transnational organised crime, namely narcotics trafficking and money laundering.[71] —— via Wikipedia


6 posted on 07/10/2025 2:02:30 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: Fedora; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Kinahan Cartel

Links to Chapo, the Chinese mafia, powerful families in Dubai, the Lyons crime family in the UK...

This incident also involved another vessel, the Castlemore, which ran aground off the Irish coast.


7 posted on 07/10/2025 2:05:54 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: Organic Panic

I spoke with an Irish priest after Mass. He was a Missionary to South America. I told him he should be a Missionary to Ireland


8 posted on 07/10/2025 3:09:19 AM PDT by FatherofFive (we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor)
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To: Words Matter

https://youtu.be/lvueqyc0uiw?si=PRVkSYCseZEREMAG


9 posted on 07/10/2025 4:13:36 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: Words Matter

The only entity capable of ruining things faster than the left is Islam.


10 posted on 07/10/2025 4:37:18 AM PDT by Da Coyote (H)
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To: piasa

Cheers


11 posted on 07/10/2025 5:41:15 AM PDT by Words Matter
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To: FatherofFive

Yes


12 posted on 07/10/2025 5:42:08 AM PDT by Words Matter
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To: piasa

Plot thickens


13 posted on 07/10/2025 5:42:55 AM PDT by Words Matter
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To: All
HOLY SEX CRIME JIHAD

Hezbollah Operations in the Tri-Border Area of South America
Latin America and the Caribbean for sexual and labor exploitation. Women and children are trafficked internationally for forced prostitution and sex tourism...
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14 posted on 07/10/2025 5:45:36 AM PDT by Words Matter
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

They are all connected with the China-Mexican cartels. Because of huge profits, drugs are now a worldwide organization.


15 posted on 07/10/2025 5:55:20 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: Words Matter

Doesn’t Ireland have Federal Judges to let them out?

Oh wait, maybe some US Federal Judge will do that. We can hope.


16 posted on 07/10/2025 9:54:45 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: Words Matter

Related to this Irish criminal organization:

https://www.icij.org/news/2024/08/a-notorious-drug-kingpin-set-up-shell-companies-in-the-british-virgin-islands-and-dubai-to-employ-alleged-cartel-underlings-documents-show/


17 posted on 07/10/2025 7:14:33 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: Words Matter

Edin “Tito” Gacanin, a Netherlands passport holder and native of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, has been convicted of trafficking huge quantities of narcotics to Europe from Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned him in 2023, calling him “the leader of the Tito and Dino Cartel” — reportedly part of a super cartel of notorious criminal organizations that include the Kinahan organized crime group of Ireland, the Dutch Mocro Maffia and Italy’s Camorra —-—— A notorious drug kingpin set up shell companies in the British Virgin Islands and Dubai to employ alleged cartel underlings, documents show, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/ICIJ.org, By Fergus Shiel, Marcos Garcia Rey and Jelena Cosic, August 20, 2024 and a transnational money launderer.


18 posted on 07/10/2025 7:32:16 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Thanks


19 posted on 07/12/2025 3:47:04 PM PDT by Words Matter
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