Iran used Red Crescent to smuggle weapons

Neben den langweiligen Beurteilungen deutscher Politiker veröffentlichte Wikileaks auch interessante Dokumente über den iranischen Waffenschmuggel in den Libanon:

Iran used the cover of the Iranian Red Crescent to smuggle intelligence agents and missiles into Lebanon during the Second Lebanon War in 2006, according to a leaked US embassy cable published on Sunday.
Dated October, 2008, the cable, which originated in Dubai was based on a meeting between a US diplomat and an unnamed source the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) smuggled officers into Lebanon during the 2006 war with Hizbullah under the guise of Red Crescent officials. The source also claimed, according to the cable, that medical supplies were used to facilitated weapons shipments.
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